[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Saving passwords is a security risk if anyone other than you has assess to the machine. Even if you trust the people who have access to it. For example, let's say I saved my PayPal login info on Firefox, and my roommate wants to check his PayPal account. He's used my machine before, so when it automagically types in the info for him - he assumes it's his and oops, he stole $50 from me without even meaning to. Or maybe he just sends a payment with my money, or screws up my settings some how. The point is, I don't like saving passwords to certain sites, and the few sites I want saved, I can use another browser for them. (I have several - Ff, Netscape, IE (yuck), Opera, K-Melon, Amaya, and that's just on Windows. On Mac, I have Netscape, Ff, IE-X, IE-Classic, iCab, Safari, Opera, and Camino.)Chad Smith wrote:
On Firefox, all of those options (and more - like saved passwords and form info) is in one place, called "Privacy" - and it took me all of 6 clicks to clear them all.
If you're willing to lose your passwords, it's 3 clicks. :-)
That being said, I think it would be best if you could check a box next to the privacy tabs you want automatically cleaned every time you lick the remove all info button, instead of having to do all or individual. I think that could be easily done, and maybe I should file a BugZilla report requesting it.
You may be interested in this article:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050123185736414
The top few paragraphs are about the design philosphy of Firefox. It's beautiful. I'll quote my favourite part, this is the original Firefox developer speaking:
"I remember sitting on IRC with Dave, Ben and Asa painstakingly
debating feature after feature, button after button, pixel after
pixel, always trying to answer the same basic question: does this
help mom use the web? If the answer was no, the next question was:
does this help mom's teenage son use the web? If the answer was
still no, the feature was either excised entirely or (occasionally) relegated to config file access only. Otherwise, it was often moved
into an isolated realm that was outside of mom's reach but not her son's, like the preferences window."
I like that approach. That approach should be universal among end-user programs, like OOo. Good find, Daniel.
-Chad Smith
