Firefox SECRETLY storing your login credentials?

On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 08:59:29 -0500, Keith Nuttle
wrote:

On 12/9/2018 8:40 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

How could we find out whether browsers are secretly storing your login
credentials?

Where is the guarantee? Where is the certification?


Quite trying to trash Firefox by implying that it is doing something
unwanted. With Firefox you have complete control.

It is no secret what Fire fox does. Go to Options. Privacy and
Security. Check "Ask to Save logins and Passwords" While there go to
saved password and delete all saved passwords.

You will then have use the significantly more secure method of managing
your password with sticky note attached to your monitor.

That is not true. Firefox now includes an automatic identifying
cookie for Google with a unique ID number, AND it is intrinsic to
Firefox, you don't even have to visit google to get it!

The official story is that it is there so your privacy preferences can
be transferred to Google and sites in Google's sphere of influence.

Check it out yourself Google.com and it is called NID You can delete
it and it returns again and again. It is an encrypted cookie - each
time you open FF and visit google it is a different value, but I
haven't found anyway to stop it even with Google blacklisted in the
options.

If I start FF with the usual cookie blocker extensions in place the
google cookie will be missing until I click on google, if I disable
all extensions (FF "safe mode") the google cookie will be present
BEFORE I visit google. (or any site)