Password Manager

Firefox has a Password Manager that can save your passwords for you.

For example, let’s say you save your Google user name and password in the Firefox Password Manager. The next time you go to login to Google, the user name and password fields will be filled in…All you have to do is click on the submit button.

This is a time-saver, and it eliminates the need to remember all of your passwords, but you should weigh the pros and cons before deciding to use it.

If other people (e.g., at work) will be using your Firefox browser, it’s probably best not to use this feature at all.

If you are the only one that uses your computer, it may not be a bad idea. However, if your computer ever gets stolen, your personal information will go with it. So be careful as to which passwords you’d like your browser to save.

If you decide that this feature is for you, then please read on to see how it works:

To set Firefox to remember your passwords, go to the top of your browser and click Tools > Options:

Under “Security” you’ll see a section called “Passwords.”

Click on “Remember passwords for sites”:

Now let’s say you go to the Google login page and enter in your credentials. When you hit submit, you’ll receive the following message from your Firefox browser:

Clicking on “Remember” will save your user name and password in Firefox.
“Never for This Site” will put Google on the “Exceptions” list in your browser, and you will never be asked to save it in Firefox again.
“Not Now” will do nothing this time…but you will be asked again for Firefox to save your information the next time you try to login to Google.

You can always check to see which sites have been saved and which have been placed on the “Exceptions” list.

Just go back to Tools > Options > Security.

Clicking on the “Show Passwords” button will bring up a screen that shows all of the sites that you have saved. You can remove any or all of the sites on the list:

Clicking on the “Exceptions” button will bring up a window that shows all of the sites in which passwords will not be saved. Once again, you can remove any or all of the sites on this list:

Finally, we have the “Master Password.”

This is an additional layer of protection that is available to you. Clicking on the box labeled “Use a master password” will bring up the following window: