[AccessD] OT: browser password fill-in

On 19 May 2005 at 11:42, John W. Colby wrote:

> Does anyone know how password / username fill-in works and specifically
> where the information is stored by the browser.  IOW, as you go out on the
> web and sites ask for a username and password, the browser pops up and asks
> if you want the values stored so that you don't have to fill them in the
> next time.  Alternately you are presented a list of usernames and the
> browser selects the right password for that username for that site.  All
> very nice, except the lists sometimes get whacked, with 7 different
> usernames never entered for that web page.  I need to go in and clean up the
> mess.
> 

For Firefox it's in
C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application 
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\Default User\Signon.txt

But apart from the URLs, it's all encrypted so you will have to "clear out" 
all entries for a URL rather than "clean up"-- 
Stuart