can't convince the login routine that I am human (Mac)

[mozurkewich]

I am having trouble with a web site login routine. I enter my username and password, but it just ignores me. Using a different browser, I found that at that point one of those "are you a human" challenges comes up; but I am not getting that in Firefox. So that seems to be the roadblock.

I temporarily disabled Cookie Autodelete and told NoScript to temporarily allow all; no joy. Privacy Badger does not object to anything at that page. Those are the only add-ons I am using. I told Firefox to allow 3rd party cookies and pop-ups, still no luck.

The most "helpful" suggestion from the site's tech support was to use Google Chrome.

Any suggestions as to the cause of the problem? Or what else I might try?

I am using Firefox 58.0.2 on a Mac running El Capitan 10.11.6.

[DanRaisch]

Have you tried starting Firefox in Mozilla Safe Mode? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode
If no improvement using Safe Mode, do you have the same problem if you create a new profile and test it with no extensions or non-default themes installed?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager

[Brummelchen]

site to login?

[mozurkewich]

Have you tried starting Firefox in Mozilla Safe Mode? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode
If no improvement using Safe Mode, do you have the same problem if you create a new profile and test it with no extensions or non-default themes installed?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager

Thanks. I tried safe mode and it worked. No challenge. So I tried it from my usual profile and it worked with no challenge. So maybe the challenge, which is what caused the problem, was a one time thing for a new user. Would have been nice if the tech guy mentioned that. I'd have noticed it sooner if I was insane.

Hmm. There's another site that has been giving me trouble. So I guess I will try safe mode there.

Let's say safe mode works to solve a problem. What would the next step be? Other than the things I tried?

[DanRaisch]

I'd say create a new profile and add the extensions you want to use to that new environment, one at a time, testing after each installation.

[mozurkewich]

Noted.

Turns out that the problem at the other site was that they changed it so my bookmark no longer worked, even though it looked like it should be working.

[DanRaisch]

Thanks for letting us know how things worked out.