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Password Management Concerns with IE and Firefox, part one
Published December 9th, 2006 in All Categories, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Security
Internet Explorer and Firefox together amass roughly ninety-five percent of all browser market 
share. AutoComplet and Password Manager are the features that store web form usernames, passwords, and URLs for Internet Explorer (since version 4), and Firefox (since version 0.7), respectively.
Each browser has helpful features to aid the user from being tasked with remembering different usernames and passwords as a means of authentication for web sites. Thus when navigating to a URL such as http://www.gmail.com where form input fields are present, both IE and Firefox will prompt the user if he or she wants to save their username and password. When the user re-visits the same web site the browser will automatically fill the fields.
Although these features greatly simplify the responsibility of the user, they also introduce security considerations that are addressed in the next few sections. Password Management Concerns with IE and Firefox, part one
