Computer not remembering passwords or fill-in info

There are some sites, such as the New Scientist site, for which my computer (MBP, 10.5.5) never remembers the passwords to login. (I know I can get a utility to remember them for me but never had the need before.)
And increasingly when filling in a form, the auto-fill does not work.
Why is this?
The functions are enabled, and work sometimes but not always. The auto-fill-in is the one that fails most often.

thanks, baltwo!
that had occurred to me but I hoped there might be another possibility that I could do something about.

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