Can't login to superuser or serverfault from a new browser

Question

I have a serverfault and superuser account, and on firefox I go to either, and I'm logged in automatically, no username or password prompt.

On a new browser, I attempt to login, and I'm prompted to log in with stackexchange, google, yahoo, myopenid or facebook.

I thought my account was directly with stackexchange, but was informed, "No account with this email found". I tried this on firefox on other stackexchange sites, and received the same message.

I didn't think I used google for my login, but tried, and it prompted me to make a new account.

I don't have a yahoo account.

I attempted to login via myopenid (again didn't think I ever used it, but tried), and no login by my name or email address was found.

As for facebook, I never use that for authentication either.

So what happened? Why can't I log into my account from a new browser, or any other stackexchange sites from firefox?

Answer 1

The only account I can find that matches you email address, uses google as the openid provider.

Answer 2

The correct thing to do in this case is click the "forgot my login" link on the login page and enter your email in the resulting recovery form...

Answer 3

You should be able to view your currently-configured OpenID logins (from one of the browsers that automatically logs you in) in your profile (click on your login name in the top bar). That should give you a strong hint as to what you need to do to login.

Answer 4

Hu. It does show google openid. Strange it prompted me for a new account the other day when I clicked on it, but it's working now, so I'll just be happy.

Thanks Zypher, Jeff, womble.