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Password security failure

richard.jewell
richard.jewell
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Firefox allows the show password option in the firefox password manager This is an extremely dangerous situation as it gives someone access to all your passwords if they have your windows login and your Firefox password is saved in Windows.

This means that if you save your Firefox password to Windows, and someone gets access to your PC, they can get a copy and read of all of your account names and account passwords in the Firefox password manager.

Access opporrunities for example are a technical support person working on your windows account.

A security update should change this to encrypt stired passwords and remove the show password option in the Firefox Password Manager.

Firefox allows the show password option in the firefox password manager This is an extremely dangerous situation as it gives someone access to all your passwords if they have your windows login and your Firefox password is saved in Windows. This means that if you save your Firefox password to Windows, and someone gets access to your PC, they can get a copy and read of all of your account names and account passwords in the Firefox password manager. Access opporrunities for example are a technical support person working on your windows account. A security update should change this to encrypt stired passwords and remove the show password option in the Firefox Password Manager.

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I'm here because the bug reporting link is not easy to find or obvious, I did spend time looking for the link. No success, I gave up. And posted here. Thanks for the link.

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Paul
Paul
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Hi,

The people who answer questions here, for the most part, are other users volunteering their time (like me), not Mozilla employees or Firefox developers. If you want to leave feedback for Firefox developers, you can go to the Firefox Help menu and select Submit Feedback... or use this link. Your feedback gets collected by a team of people who read it and gather data about the most common issues.

You can also file a bug report or feature request. See File a bug report or feature request for Mozilla products for details.

richard.jewell
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Réiteach Roghnaithe

I'm here because the bug reporting link is not easy to find or obvious, I did spend time looking for the link. No success, I gave up. And posted here. Thanks for the link.

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