Currently Firefox (33) has an annoying limitation regarding password storage wit

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Currently Firefox (33) has an annoying limitation regarding password storage with the built-in password manager because services are only distinguished by the host part of the URL which prevents storing passwords for services running under different pathes (e.g. example.org/myservice1 and example.org/example2), because one can only save one username-password-pair for the URL host example.org (it is possible to same multiple username-password-pairs for the host, though).

I just checked out some allround password managers, some claiming they extend the built-in pasword manager (e.g. Master Password+), others just reinventing the wheel. It turned to a trial-error-search because no password manager mentions path specific password storage explicitly, so I'm asking for assistance.

Explanation / Answer

Your problem sounds like it could be solved by an autofill extension. I've used one in Chrome for a site where Chrome just wouldn't save the username and password, which supports regexps for URLs to apply each rule; it has a Firefox counterpart but as far as I can tell the Firefox version only matches on the site name, not on the full URL, so it won't help you.

Autofill Forms, on the other hand, allows to define profiles at least based on a prefix of the URL (and, I think, based on a regexp, but I haven't investigated that). So you could define separate profiles for the different parts of the site and record different passwords in each.

A limitation of this approach is that your password is saved in the extension's settings, not in a separate location that may be better-protected. This may or may not be ok for you depending on what synchronization you have in place for extension settings and how sensitive the password is.

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