[Scgeeks] Re: Simple(?) Firefox question

[jg]

On 12/19/2007 2:57 PM indigo scribbled:

> jg wrote:
> 
>> Looking at that file, I'd guess not many would - but this /is/ a geeks
>> group.
> 
> Well, there *are* different levels of geeks with different levels of
> confidence in their abilities...and being mostly homebound a PC is my
> only connection to the rest of the world.

I meant nothing more by my comment than the file in question is text but
doesn't read that way - looks encrypted, so the suggestion that it can
be edited was over /my/ head.

> 
>> I found that bookmarklet interesting in the information it supplied.
>> Real nice - something is actually done in an attempt to protect
>> security and someone writes a script to get around it...
> 
> Someone will always find a way around something they find annoying ;-)
> This is my home PC, no one ever uses it but me (I live alone), so the
> PITA of having to type in (and remember) passwords is worth the possible
> security problem for me. I mean if it's so bad, why did Firefox, the
> "king of security", build it into it's code in the first place?
> 
> 
the bookmarklet is not part of Firefox and was not written by them - its
an addon.  My passwords are stored for me.  I've never run into a site
that tells FF not to save but the implication seems to be that all
browsers can be told /not/ to do something, something I was not aware of.