(In reply to Brian Smith (:briansmith), was bsm...@mozilla.com (:bsmith) from comment #95) > Shouldn't the users that care about protecting their passwords be using > full-disk encryption with a system password already? Why don't we just > remove the master password mechanism on Linux completely, and rely on users > use of operating-system-level protection of their whole profile?
Full-disk encryption won't be available to whoever is storing its data on a computer he/she doesn't control. For example you might have to keep your profile on a shared drive when working in an office (alas that's a situation I have been in multiple times) and for those use cases providing a way to encrypt your saved passwords is very important. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/41179 Title: Integrate with Gnome Keyring Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Confirmed Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in “xulrunner-1.9” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in “xulrunner-1.9.1” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: For a really good Gnome integration, it would be great to have the ability to save passwords in the Gnome keyring. A similar thing has been proposed for Epiphany: see https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/3467. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/41179/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
