[wp-forums] Username casing

[ipstenu at ipstenu.org]

Quoting Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com>:

> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:21 AM, esmi at quirm dot net  
> <esmi at quirm.net> wrote:
>> I seem to recall that an earlier version of Firefox (3.0?) had problems with
>> case sensitvity & logins. Could it just be a browser issue?
>
> Yes, I think it's a browser issue. Specifically, the last time
> somebody brought this up, they tried using a different browser and it
> worked. Then they went back and cleared their browser cache and memory
> and such, and it worked there too.
>
> Firefox in particular is bad about sending what it thinks you want it
> to send and using memory or something to making it "transparent" on
> login fields. You would think that wouldn't matter, but somehow it
> does.

I bet it's changing it to lower (or upper) case in-flight. I've  
watched it change 'ipstenu' to 'Ipstenu' since it knew I liked that in  
one place. Even though I typed i, it auto-corrected :/

They may need to kill the saved passwords.