Too Many Password To Remember? How To Get Them With Firefox

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This system allows you to solve definitely one of the greatest problem of the digital era: the high number of accounts (and as a consequence usernames and passwords), that we are always forced to remember in order to enter in every online service as, for instance, banking, blogs, online tickets and so on…

In order to put a light on the matter I’m dealing with, I want to specify that I’m not only speaking about accounts memorization whenever we digit our access password, but I am referring also to the possibility of visualizing,  when requested, our reserved area web sites complete list with the same usernames and passwords we used in our last access.

Set Firefox in order to remember all passwords

If you want to use this function (that I consider quite fundamental) set Firefox as follows:

1. Open the preferences window in Instruments>Options

2. Click on Safety

3. In password form verify that the option remember all sites passwords is selected. This way Firefox will remember for you any username and password.

How to visualize all used usernames and passwords list

At this very moment we can visualize our list always by using our front mask (Tools>Options>Safety) doing a click on the Show my password button. You’ll notice then that Firefox is somehow “shy”: in fact, in that list there are all reserved areas addresses and all usernames, but no passwords! So you must click once more on the button Show my password and after the nth confirmation, here you have your list:

• url

• username

• password

referring to the last accesses. Anyway, pay attention that some wrong passwords will be shown: they appear but they don’t work anymore. I suggest you to delete them from your list as you meet them.

And what about privacy?

The first time I opened the front mask I made the same question. Of course, we can use our pc access password as protection, but showing all our remote banking accesses is absolutely out of any protection.

In order to solve this trouble you can use….try to guess….!! The main password! That is to say: go to Instruments>Options>Safety and then set the main password you will be asked every time you’ll start surfing the net, in order to authorize the access function in all passwords control.