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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Charles Arthur

Firefox broke our engagement: the sad story of unsaved passwords

Firefox can seriously imperil your engagement - at least if your fiance is cheating on you and visiting dating sites behind your back.

Such is the sad story told on this Mozilla bugs page: after five years of engagement (hmm, was someone holding back from tying the knot then?), she discovered that there were lots of sites where the passwords were unsaved. And then that they were dating websites.

Firefox prompted whether or not I'd like it to save my password for logging into my website. I chose never and changed my mind. I went into the Password Manager to change the saved password option from Never to Always and that's when I saw all these other sites that had been selected as "Never Save Password." Of course, those were sites I had never visited or could ever dream of visiting.


Then I realized who, how and what... and sh*t hit the fan. Your browser does not efficiently respect the privacy of different users for one system.


It sounds as if she's complaining about the fact the Firefox outed her fiance as a love rat (or more accurately a potential love rat).

That's not a bug. It's a feature. Though apparently it's been fixed now. But really, better to have found out now than to have to give the wedding presents back...

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