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| - | After Microsoft switched to Chromium as its code base for Edge, I left Firefox in the dust. The organization turned unnecessarily political and ideological, and as various security and privacy concerns were raised, I decided it was no longer worth my time. | + | |
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| - | To date, Firefox continues to store passwords in an insecure fashion: if someone has access to your logged-in session (like someone using your computer at work or school), they can easily access your passwords. | + | |
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| - | All Chromium-based browsers, including Edge, make use of the operating system's secure password storage - this is called Credential Manager in Windows and the Keychain in MacOS. Revealing passwords requires the logged-in user's password. | + | |
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| - | **I strongly advise against continuing to use Firefox in any capacity. It isn't secure and will not keep your online account passwords secure.** | + | |
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| Quite a few years ago now, a large open-source project called Pidgin fell prey to one of the bigger pitfalls of OSS – developer-user relations. With commercial software development, a company has resources available to do things like usability testing, analysis of interface design, and most importantly – interact with customers through company representatives whose primary role is to address customer concerns and issues. Software developers are famously stubborn and, for lack of a better word, assholes about their work. Customer liaisons protect users from the rough-around-edges aspects of the developers’ personalities and tendencies, and the end result is that the customers are happy, the software satisfies the customers’ needs, and the developers don’t end up in really sticky situations. | Quite a few years ago now, a large open-source project called Pidgin fell prey to one of the bigger pitfalls of OSS – developer-user relations. With commercial software development, a company has resources available to do things like usability testing, analysis of interface design, and most importantly – interact with customers through company representatives whose primary role is to address customer concerns and issues. Software developers are famously stubborn and, for lack of a better word, assholes about their work. Customer liaisons protect users from the rough-around-edges aspects of the developers’ personalities and tendencies, and the end result is that the customers are happy, the software satisfies the customers’ needs, and the developers don’t end up in really sticky situations. | ||
