this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2023
570 points (89.8% liked)

Technology

59607 readers
2847 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
570
Firefox is on the brink of being dropped by the US Government (www.brycewray.com)
submitted 11 months ago by morrowind@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
256 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Did you know that you can see those passwords in plain text in the browser settings?

Use a password manager

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I believe you can set up a general password that you have to enter before you can see your other passwords in plain text. Unless I'm mistaken.

Either way, it's not the default

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If they are visible in plain text without a master password, then it's not very relevant. I just tested this on my work laptop with a shared key I have stored in there and it didn't require any master password, nor was I prompted to set one up when I originally installed chrome three months back.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Oh I don't know about Chrome, I should have specified that I use Firefox