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Moved to firefox by tomfletcherman on 09-08-2004 at 04:29 PM

In belief of a better experience with the internet, I have jsut installed firefox, and it is excellent, but how do I get my favourites in a little window down the side of the screen like in IE? Also is the security just as good and is it ok for it to store my passwords?

RE: Moved to firefox by KeyStorm on 09-08-2004 at 04:34 PM

You have to use Ctrl+B to show up the Bookmarks-pane.

I believe passwords are stored properly encrypted, but I'm not 100% sure.

RE: Moved to firefox by Maniac on 09-08-2004 at 04:34 PM

right click somewhere on top and go to "customise" then you can add the bookmarks button on the toolbar, when you press it they come out.... if that's what you mean

RE: Moved to firefox by tomfletcherman on 09-08-2004 at 04:40 PM

Thanx KeyStorm, this is exactly what I meant.

RE: Moved to firefox by bach_m on 09-08-2004 at 07:46 PM

passwords ARE encrypted properly.


i think its md5, but i don't know

RE: Moved to firefox by WDZ on 09-08-2004 at 07:55 PM

quote:
Originally posted by bach_m
i think its md5, but i don't know
md5 is a one-way encryption, so you wouldn't be able to retrieve the password once it's encrypted... :dodgy:
RE: Moved to firefox by Choli on 09-08-2004 at 08:24 PM

quote:
Originally posted by WDZ
quote:
Originally posted by bach_m
i think its md5, but i don't know
md5 is a one-way encryption, so you wouldn't be able to retrieve the password once it's encrypted... :dodgy:
exactly, so passwords are not properly ecrypted/saved.

The best way of store your passwords is remembering them. If you can't do that, be sure noone uses your account (supposing you're in windows xp, not 98).
RE: Moved to firefox by RaceProUK on 09-08-2004 at 10:07 PM

quote:
Originally posted by bach_m
i think its md5, but i don't know
That's not really encryption, that's a hashing algorithm.
The encryption is probably something like RSA or similar, probably also 128-bit.