Password

[Mylittlepuddykat]

I have forgotten my CC password! the only reason I am on here is because I have it saved by firefox, I've been happily signing in for ages but I realised that I dont actually know it and the email address I have down on CC no longer exists - is there a way out with out me having to restart with a new account?

Thanks

Puddy

[phantomzero]

It's easy to look up your saved passwords in Firefox. This is also a huge security problem with Firefox. Please see the attached link for the easy solution.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/f ... n-firefox/

"In Firefox, navigate to the Tools \ Options menu item. Select the Security button{thanks wcaclimbing}, the Passwords tab, and then click on View Saved Passwords.
Click the Show Passwords button, and navigate down to the website password you are looking for."

[wcaclimbing]

.... Its the security button, not the privacy button.

in firefox, up top, click the Tools button.
On that dropdown list there should be 'Options' as one of the choices.
Click the icon labelled 'security' in that options menu.
in the 'passwords section of that page, click the button labelled "saved passwords".
That will pop up a page with every website + your username on that site.
Click the "show passwords" button. That shows you every one of the passwords saved by your firefox.

[Mylittlepuddykat]

Thanks very much ... mind you I don't think I will be saving passwords with firefox if anyone can read them!

[Havatcha]

Thanks very much ... mind you I don't think I will be saving passwords with firefox if anyone can read them!

You could only read them where you saved them, which I presume you would only do at home, or on an account you have to log on to in the first place. You wouldn't go into an Internet cafe and save your passwords in Firefox, or any other browser for that matter, so I don't think it's such a big security issue.

I only save my login details on a pc/laptop I know only I can use. Of course, if you want to be extra sure just never save a password, commit it to memory and auto-destruct all the evidence

[steelerfan24]

Thanks very much ... mind you I don't think I will be saving passwords with firefox if anyone can read them!

You could only read them where you saved them, which I presume you would only do at home, or on an account you have to log on to in the first place. You wouldn't go into an Internet cafe and save your passwords in Firefox, or any other browser for that matter, so I don't think it's such a big security issue.

I only save my login details on a pc/laptop I know only I can use. Of course, if you want to be extra sure just never save a password, commit it to memory and auto-destruct all the evidence

Firefox also allows you to place a master password to secure all of your other passwords. The passwords section of the security tab allows you to set a master password. Setting this password will require you to enter that password every new session of Firefox that you start in order to auto-fill login info, but it is a fairly decent level of security (especially if you have a good password system).

[Havatcha]

Thanks very much ... mind you I don't think I will be saving passwords with firefox if anyone can read them!

You could only read them where you saved them, which I presume you would only do at home, or on an account you have to log on to in the first place. You wouldn't go into an Internet cafe and save your passwords in Firefox, or any other browser for that matter, so I don't think it's such a big security issue.

I only save my login details on a pc/laptop I know only I can use. Of course, if you want to be extra sure just never save a password, commit it to memory and auto-destruct all the evidence

Firefox also allows you to place a master password to secure all of your other passwords. The passwords section of the security tab allows you to set a master password. Setting this password will require you to enter that password every new session of Firefox that you start in order to auto-fill login info, but it is a fairly decent level of security (especially if you have a good password system).

Ah but what if you forget your password for your passwords...?

[steelerfan24]

Thanks very much ... mind you I don't think I will be saving passwords with firefox if anyone can read them!

You could only read them where you saved them, which I presume you would only do at home, or on an account you have to log on to in the first place. You wouldn't go into an Internet cafe and save your passwords in Firefox, or any other browser for that matter, so I don't think it's such a big security issue.

I only save my login details on a pc/laptop I know only I can use. Of course, if you want to be extra sure just never save a password, commit it to memory and auto-destruct all the evidence

Firefox also allows you to place a master password to secure all of your other passwords. The passwords section of the security tab allows you to set a master password. Setting this password will require you to enter that password every new session of Firefox that you start in order to auto-fill login info, but it is a fairly decent level of security (especially if you have a good password system).

Ah but what if you forget your password for your passwords...?

That is the catch - but since you'd probably be entering it every time you open a new session, you're gonna remember it, unlike a website password that's stored in Firefox that you never have to enter manually.