Rufus wrote:
Phillip Jones wrote:
me2 wrote:
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:14:32 -0500, Phillip Jones
<[email protected]> wrote:
The powers that be don't have the
manpower, knowledge, interest, desire, willingness to do so
I hope we have not reached the point where seamonkey, or indeed any
"free" software, will defined by a few - the genius of its origin was
a browser that encompassed several vital tools under one umbrella. To
start cutting off any of these, form manger included, diminishes the
original concept and automatically removes some users who had depended
on a given ability. If the "powers that be" really want to send people
to other browsers this is great way to start.
BUT I really believe that the importance of form manger was just
underestimated and there remains hope for its restoration.
There is a glimmer of hope. there has been some rekindled interest in
adding a forms manager, But, it will not be along the lines of the one
in 1.1.8. It would be more along the lines of the extension Forms
History Manager. But Most likely it would make a return in version 2.1
or 2.2 (remember updates are in .1 increments so it will be quite
aways away
What I've noticed in my survey of Mac alternatives to SM is that quite a
few are integrated with Apple Keychain - including Safari, which looks
like it may store forms information there...as I'm not a Safari user I
don't really know. But what I do know and like about Keychain is that is
encrypts it's contents and those contents are protected by a password of
it's own outside of any parent app...
...and I like the idea of using a standalone outside of the browser
itself which is integrated as a part of the basic function of the OS -
does the PC and/or Linux world incllude anything similar to Apple
Keychain? If so, maybe the way to go is to exploit that (existing?)
capability on both platforms for storage of such information?
Just a suggestion...if no one provides this capability other than Apple,
it's pretty much moot.
As I recall, Camino uses the Keychain. There was a Mcc port of TB in the
works, I recall downloading an early copy. I don't know if it still is
under active developement.
Lee
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