There is a potential risk in Firefox that by default all the passwords remembered by Firefox can easily be viewed by anyone who happens to access your computer. You can check this for your system by following these steps :
- Go to Tools menu and click Options...
- Go to Security Tab and click on Saved Passwords button.
- A new window will come up and click on Show Passwords button and you see all the passwords stored by firefox.
This is a potential danger since passwords are not stored in encrypted format and anyone who has access to your computer could easily read all your passwords.
The way to protect your system from such users is to either use KeePass to store passwords or use Firefox's own Master Password Option(MPW). By setting the master password, firefox becomes a lot safer.
Enabling the Master Password:
- Go to Tools menu and click Options...
- Go to Security Tab and enable the option "Use A Master Password". This will ask you to enter a password that you need to remember.
Now, every time you start your browser and log in somewhere, Firefox will ask for the Master Password for the first time. It will also ask the Master Password when trying to view the list of saved passwords or when doing anything else with your personal data.
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