AutoLoginJ user script
AutoLoginJ automatically submits login forms where Firefox has remembered the password. You can use Greasemonkey's included/excluded pages feature to make it work on all sites, all sites except ones you specify, or only sites you specify.
The "J" in the name distinguishes it from a competing script and an extension with a similar name.
To install a user script into Firefox, install Greasemonkey, restart Firefox, open the user script, and select "Install User Script..." from the Tools menu.
May 2nd, 2005 at 9:25 am
So why is it better than the others?
May 2nd, 2005 at 9:41 am
Does Greasemonkey work with the latest builds? I was unable to do anything with Greasemonkey. Everything seemed to be greyed out.
May 2nd, 2005 at 10:27 am
Jesse’s version handles things in an almost completely different way. The competing user script creates a bunch of timers and functions and event listeners when they aren’t really necessary. Personally I think Jesse’s code is much cleaner in how it is written and executed.
I haven’t used either, but I would assume that they would do similar things.
May 2nd, 2005 at 11:43 am
This script and the plugin aren’t really competing tools. This is nice for sites that allow you to save your password, but require you to login (such as gmail or many forums). The plugin works even if the site does not allow for saved passwords, but the plugin takes a little more configuration to work. I use the plugin on certain sites (for example yahoo), and this plugin on everything else.
May 2nd, 2005 at 5:25 pm
I have problems with Greasemonkey too! I can’t get it to do anything! I don’t think it supports FF 1.0.3
May 4th, 2005 at 2:40 pm
On http://del.icio.us/login , AutoLoginJ keeps pressing the “forgot password” button, instead of the “log in” button. I suspect looking for a “submit” button just isn’t enough for that site. Any way of fixing this?
May 4th, 2005 at 10:03 pm
Amir – that should be fixed now. Thanks.
May 5th, 2005 at 10:31 am
Working beautifully now, thanks.
May 11th, 2005 at 3:45 pm
This is almost a roboform replacement! Great!
May 18th, 2005 at 11:04 am
Hi Jesse, thanks for the script! I’m really happy with it…except for one thing. On some pages (e.g. https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?hl=en&service=groups2 ), a failed submission returns you to the same page. So, if Firefox has a bad username or password stored, AutoLoginJ will try to log in, fail, return to the login page, and infinite loop. This one is noticeable because it used my (correct) GMail login, since it was a .google.com domain, but GMail just wants the username, while this page wants the entire email address.
I’m not sure how you’d fix this, but I thought you might want to know. Otherwise, I love the script!
May 20th, 2005 at 9:44 pm
Ryan, just as a temporary workaround for you, I’m pretty sure Gmail allows the full email address as your username.
June 2nd, 2005 at 9:34 pm
AutoLoginJ Script
This script by Jesse Ruderman, AutoLoginJ user script, allows you to automatically login to sites that allow you to save the username and password. He is mentioning another similar script, AutoLogin, and an extension, named AutoLogin as well.
Both sc…
June 22nd, 2005 at 10:49 pm
Hope somehow you are not receving our passwords?? i am scared. even if you are receving passwords you would not tell us.
June 24th, 2005 at 10:53 pm
Tiger, you have to either trust me or read the script to determine that I’m not receiving your passwords.
June 28th, 2005 at 10:55 pm
Okay… i am not a computer programmer or big computer junkie. but it does not work with my gateway page. i have shared cable internet connection
thank you.
July 18th, 2005 at 7:34 am
This rocks!
You need to setup paypal.
July 18th, 2005 at 10:12 am
Jason: if you’re trying to give me money, see http://www.squarefree.com/donate/.
July 28th, 2005 at 10:35 am
With this script its so esay to view your webmail, just (e.g.) klick a bookmark (in firefox) and you’re in. This is great. Thank you Jesse!
There’s some problem with certain webpages thou. I can’t login to http://www.emusic.com automatically (even thou firefox saves the username and password). To bad. I visit this great service offen :)
August 14th, 2005 at 10:56 pm
I love this, but it’s not compatible with GM 0.5 beta!!
August 25th, 2005 at 5:51 pm
This is the *reason* I got greasemonkey in the first place, a great script. Unfortunately, GM .5, which has now been auto updated by firefox, has broken it’s default behavior. When I open any bookmark, it won’t trigger. If I refresh with F5 however, it does seem to trigger..
August 28th, 2005 at 7:02 am
Loading a page via a keyword (eg, a bookmark) doesn’t work for me either. However, pressing f5 makes the script spring into action after the reload.
August 28th, 2005 at 5:14 pm
http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11395
It appears to be a GM 5.1 bug. Pretty core funcitonality to be broken for a release. *sigh*.
September 5th, 2005 at 5:28 pm
Hey Jesse…another minor bug report. AutoLoginJ doesn’t work at http://vonage.com/ . Interestingly, though, it works at https://secure.vonage.com/vonage-web/public/login.htm .
I haven’t dug into it deeply, but on first glance, the login button on the front page is an image link with onClick javascript, while the latter page is a simple POST form.
If you ever get the time to look at this and need a login, drop me a line and we can work something out. Thanks again for the script!
September 7th, 2005 at 12:47 pm
I’ve been noticing lately that AutoLoginJ has been working on fewer webpages (thanks to the GM updates, perhaps?). Case in point at the moment: dell.com.
By the way, I’m another one of the very grateful users who has been enjoying your script for quite some time now but has never even taken a moment to say thanks. It’s embarassing. Really, I have greatly appreciated the work you’ve done.
September 13th, 2005 at 6:17 am
Does this script work with Greasemonkey 5.3 yet?