[AccessD] Geek to Live: Secure your saved passwords in Firefox

My cable company / ISP provides Norton security for free.  It has a similar  
feature that I use.   It doesn't give you a choice about the master  
password.

Steve Goodhall, MSCS, PMP

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-----Original message-----
From: Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving  
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Sun, Oct 2, 2011 21:05:27 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Geek to Live: Secure your saved passwords in Firefox

But I'd bet that the majority of people who have passwords saved in FF have  
never set a  
master passwod.

-- 
Stuart


On 2 Oct 2011 at 14:06, jwcolby wrote:

> Apparently Firefox encrypts them using a common encryption algorithm
> and a master password you supply.  Then the first time that you go to
> a web page where you need to log in (and have a saved password),
> Firefox asks you for your master password.  Using that it decrypts the
> passwords and supplies the username / password for that web page.
> 
> I am using that now for firefox.  Of course I also just switched to
> Chrome...
> 
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> 
> On 10/2/2011 11:55 AM, Tina Norris Fields wrote:
> > Aha! Next question is: How easy would it be for a hacker to get the
> > Firefox saved passwords? T
> >
> > Tina Norris Fields
> > tinanfields at torchlake.com
> > 231-322-2787
> >
> >
> > On 9/30/2011 5:58 PM, jwcolby wrote:
> >> http://lifehacker.com/154099/geek-to-live--secure-your-saved-passwo
> >> rds-in-firefox
> >>
> >> jwcolby
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