Re: Saving passwords in 2.28

[Paul van der Vlis <paul vandervlis nl>]

Xan Lopez schreef:
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Michael Monreal
> <michael monreal gmail com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 16:13 +0200, Xan Lopez wrote:
>>> In any case most sites
>>> doing auth with forms should auto-login you through cookies, so the
>>> impact of this is a lot smaller than what most people imagine when
>>> they hear about it.
>> Even if you accept the idea to keep cookies across sessions (which many
>> users are not willing to do, for a reason) this is only valid for the
>> lifetime of a cookie. Most Forums and Web mailers limit the cookie to a
>> few days or weeks at most. So, I really don't think this is only a small
>> issue...
> 
> I didn't say it was small, only that is wasn't as catastrophic as some
> people want to make it. Maybe it's because all the sites I use (and I
> use quite a few) don't have such draconian cookie policies, but I
> don't have to retype my password every few days for any of them.

Take a look in Epiphany and count the saved passwords. I have 192.

If my distribution (Debian) comes with Epiphany 2.28 in the next
version, I am afraid I need to go to Firefox, because I need to come
fast into many sites for my work.

With regards,
Paul.