Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
Warning:- By default firefox stores the passwords unencrypted. You can see the exact passwords by going to Edit -> preferences -> view saved passwords. If you are the only person using the computer, then it probably is fine. But if multiple persons use it, then I would sincerely advice against using the "saved passwords feature".
You may all find this interesting -<http://passwordmaker.mozdev.org/> , also Blake Ross is involved in a project at stanford to do something similar for IE <http://crypto.stanford.edu/PwdHash/>. You keep one password locally which is hashed with the domain of each site to create a unique password per site.