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Thursday, January 18, 2007

Firefox 2 Login Rememberence Is Implemented Wrong!

As we speak I am posting this with Firefox 2.0.0.1. I have been using it for the past several days because my IE 7.0 has decided to start screwing up and crashing.

If you have ever signed into a site that has password authentication using a password field in HTML you know that almost all browsers these days offer to "remember" your password from now on. Well, I think in this aspect Firefox got it wrong.

They remember your password, and other information, but it won't remember my username. That means that it is keeping my password somewhere on the computer I am on and I have to type my username in. Now, if it is really going to remember my information, why will it not remember my username? If it is going to force me to type something in, I'd rather it be the password and not the username, because the username is a constant and the password is most likely going to change over time.

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