Re: firefox password manager
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 01:37:12AM -0400, Allan Wind wrote:
> On 2005-04-07T19:25:44-0400, hacker wrote:
> > I'm trying to use firefox (unstable) to manage my login password for
> > my gmail and yahoo mail accounts, but it doesn't seem to be doing
> > anything.
>
> It appears that sites can control caching of the password via the
> password manager, not sure exacty how it works but I have seen it
> selective on a per field basis. I was not that curious enough to spend
> cycles to figure it out though.
>
This is a Microsoft extension which is now supported by most browsers.
The web designer just has to put autocomplete=off globally in the form
or in each field to disable caching of the information by the browser.
Philippe
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