On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:53:10 -0400, Phillip Jones <pjon...@kimbanet.com> wrote:
>Robert Kaiser wrote: >> JohnW-Mpls schrieb: >>> I am now back >>> to 1.19 >> >> If you like having unpatched security vulnerabilities on your computer, >> have fun with it! >> >>> Are there any 2.x plans to fix the ID/Password processing? >> >> You didn't tell us what the specific bugs are. If the specific problems >> are filed as bug reports in bugzilla.mozilla.org, chances are that >> someone might look at them. Without that, nobody sees that there could >> be any problems. >> And remember, any report need to be specific and to the point to what >> the actual problem in an actual case is. "It's broken" is not helpful as >> it doesn't tell us what doesn't work and a developer needs to be able >> reproduce the problem on his setup to work on fixing it. >> >> Robert Kaiser > >That the fellow is mad about is in SM1.X when you saved user Name and >Password for say Bank (but others) the username and password would >automatically pop up in the form fields (the password would be shown as >a series of 's) > >Because The Banking and Insurance and Securities Industries, held a club >over Mozilla's heads. That no longer happens. You actually have to type >in your username before it will fill in. So you have to memorize every >Username you use. > >That's quite a feat to have to do, especially folks like me that have >trouble with spelling. > >So there will be a lot of folks that will go back to SM1 and FF3.0 just >for that. You got it. Phillip - it's not a bug but a design change/flaw. I went to 2.x for better security but the design of ID/Password handling went overboard. I have a few hundred bookmarks and a few dozen with ID/Password protection. The Wall St Journal is a nice example, one of the publications I go to daily. When I go to the WSJ site with 1.x, their site comes up with a "Hello, John" greeting - they already know me as a customer. With 2.x. the WSJ comes up but I am restricted till I click to login and then I need to right-click for 5-15 seconds for 2.x to finally respond with my ID/Password, or I need to enter in the first character of the ID I use for that vendor. I use a number of ID/Passwords for different purposes, for different clients, etc. Remembering which one for which site is not practical for a human - that's what I have a computer for, and the 1.x and even old Netscape does it well - user friendly. -- JohnW-Mpls _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
