On: Showing stored passwords – Tim Berners-Lee

[CoryG89]

I've often thought that it was strange that these passwords were stored in plain text. Although. At least with the version of Firefox my old workplace had on their machines, I was able to view all the passwords stored in it as well. Not sure if this has been fixed, but at least it's not always been just Chrome guilty of this.

[johnpowell → CoryG89]

Just checked with latest FF on OS 10.8.4. Click a button and you can see all of them. Safari will prompt for a password.

[neilparikh → johnpowell]

Firefox allows you set a master password, which will hide stored passwords and not allow you to access them until you enter the master password.

I think this also encrypts the stored passwords, but I'm not sure about that.