Secure Your Saved Passwords In Firefox
Posted by admin on June 27th, 2007
Among various Firefox features there is an important feature also which is its ability to save the passwords you enter to log on to different web sites. For ex. whenever you login at your yahoomail, there’s a window popup in which you usually click on ‘Remember’ tab so that you don’t have to type them every time you want to login.
But infact those passwords are easily accessible to anyone with access to your computer. If you don’t beleive that then follow the steps given below:
a) Navigate to Tools>>Options.
b) Click on security tab and then on show password tab.
c) Now you can see all your saved passwords in this Remember passwords window.
This is a flaw in firefox that can be very dangerous as anyone using your computer can find all your passwords within 10 seconds.
To prevent yourself from this, you have to do a little but prominent thing i.e.
Tick the ‘Set a master password’ button above the show password tab on the page and set a password there…..
Your saved passwords are safe now !!!