Guitarhacker
There is a box which I checked on the login screen which said "keep me logged in" and now, I am automatically logged in when I come here.
This is helpful and I may resort to using this method (mostly because this forum requires a long password), but it will require that I disable the erasing of all cookies on exiting Firefox as I understand it uses a cookie for this.
I think the problem is that the login dialog no longer is built as a box that Firefox can recognize as a form to be filled in (if you click anywhere outside it, it goes away).
I don't think that Firefox allows for exceptions to it's erasing of all cookies, as it does for the accepting of them.