Thursday, July 29, 2010

Security Measure in Mozilla Firefox

Earlier i told you guys how to steel stored passwords in mozilla firefox(Click here to read more).From the day i got to know about this stupid feature of firefox,i was hunting for some protective measure and the one i got is very obvious.They people themselves provide the option to set a master password to all the passwords you store . The master password can be configured as follows =>

goto TOOLS>>OPTIONS , and click on USE MASTER PASSWORD.then a window will pop-up where you can enter your password.

























After configuring the master password,the firefox will prompt to enter the password each time you try to access those saved passwords that means you need it when u login somewhere using saved passwords or you try to see the saved passwords(as described in earlier posts).So in this way you may protect yourself from your closed ones.

SNAPSHOTS :

<1>
In the following snapshot i have enabled the master password and when i am trying to see the saved passwords it first prompts for the master password.
























<2>
In the following i have saved my yahoo password password earlier and had closed it.Then i opened the firefox again and when i tried to login using saved password , firefox promted to enter the master password.


0 comments:

Post a Comment