*think* I've solved the problem:
First, you must locate your firefox profile data, and namely the file that contains your passwords.
Example:
c:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles\some_directory\signons.txt
where "Documents and Settings" may be called differently in your version of Windows or be on a different drive, or be ~/.firefox on linux
- and in the "profiles" directory there will be a profiles.ini file that contains the list of all profiles of the firefox, along with the path to each profile (which may NOT be "some_directory" under the profiles directory, but will be in most cases).
Edit 2: If you've already updated to 2.0.0.2, the file is called signons2.txt.
And, also, the Application Data folder has the "hidden" attribute, so you must configure your filemanager (or that bloody winblows explorer) to show hidden files as well.
Steps to take:
1) Close Firefox (and by that I mean REALLY close, including all small windows, Chatzilla and all other things. Check the task manager to see that there is no process called firefox.exe).
2) open signons2.txt in notepad or other plaintext editor.
3) erase all hattrick entries, save, close
4) Open firefox, goto HT, login, remember password
5) Close Firefox again
6). open signons2.txt, erase the "www86.hattrick.org" or appropriate line - BUT leave the empty line there, add
http://www.hattrick.org to the first section of the file (the one labelled #2d), save, close. See below for example of how it should look
7) Open FF, go to HT. It should work.
In other words - IF you have your login and password already stored in there and configure firefox NOT to store passwords for this server, it will still use the stored passwords, but will NOT update the file using the new mechanism (and storing the actual wwwnn. server in there).
When upgrading FF at work, I just edited signons.txt before the upgrade, adding HT to the first section. Then I installed FF 2.0.0.2 and it all works fine.
#2d
http://www.hattrick.org
.
http://www.hattrick.org
loginname
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
*password
yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
.
^^^ The dots are important and the blank link is imporant as well!
