Store passwords securely in FireFox Tuesday, July 22, 2008

I thought it couldn't be done – I thought that FireFox unlike Safari or Camino couldn't store web passwords securely. By its default setting, I was right. That's partly why I was using Camino instead for personal use (FireFox is still superior for Web development testing). Camino and Safari make use of OS X's keychain to encrypt your passwords, storing them securely. Well FireFox still can't do this without commercial third-party software but it basically has its own sort of keychain functionality built in. You go to your preferences under security, and set a master password. Here's a link that explains it more.

Also by the way, I was also preferring Camino because it started up so much faster than FireFox. With the introduction of FireFox 3 though, it's fast again! I think I'll retire Camino :)