Daniel wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
David E. Ross wrote:
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.
Yes, I know. See above, where I wrote:
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), ...
We had a discussion here a couple of months ago when I was missing the
old Form Manager and Robert Kaiser kept telling me SM 2.0 should be
doing it even though on my system it wasn't. After searching and
searching for answers, I finally discovered that option in a place I
would never think to look if I weren't doing an exhaustive search. And I
commented at the time that I had my reservations about what was being
saved, when, and how. Now that I've tested it and found it wanting, I've
opted out, and I'm back to wishing I had a form manager that worked
well. I'll probably try Stephan Mahieu's add-on -- anything has to be
better than what SM 2 offers out of the box.
Paul a work-aroud would be to remember where this setting is then, when
you want to do some banking or on-line buying, disable this setting,
close SM, re-open SM, do your banking, etc, turn the function back on,
close SM, restart SM and continue as normal.
Of course, this relise on you remembering what your up to!!
Daniel
.....and (after reading the full thread) I see that this, and similar,
has already been suggested.
Daniel
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