On 9/30/10 7:13 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > I recently visited an online site that accepts political contributions > for a variety of candidates. I entered my credit card info to make a > contribution, printed my receipt, and left. The next time I visited, > SeaMonkey had all the credit card info stored and ready to go, which was > really scary. I poked around and couldn't find any way to prohibit it > from storing info entered in this field or at this site, so I ended up > with the heavy-handed solution of purging ALL saved data, which will be > a safe inconvenience. > > I've now disabled this dangerous feature (after ten minutes of searching > for the checkbox in the prefs -- it was just as hard to find as last > time), because > > a) It never warned me that it was saving credit card info; > > b) There seems to be no way to prevent it from saving credit card info > -- it sees all form data as equally eligible. > > c) There seems to be no way to inspect or edit saved data, so I can't > even be sure SeaMonkey really did purge the data. > > As far as I'm concerned, this is a major security hole that should be > fixed as soon as possible. >
For SeaMonkey 2.0.x, select [Edit > Preferences] on the menu bar. In Category section (left side) of the Preferences window, select [Broswer > History]. On the History pane, uncheck the checkbox for "Enable form and search history". Select the OK button. This should prevent any saving of data you enter into a form. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
