Thought this might interest everyone regarding a password problem in Firefox and maybe IE as well. See this link for more details.

http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CI...;edate=20061127

Something like this was bound to happen with FF eventually!

I can see this being a big issue since there are quite a few people that don't read links (URLs) before clicking on them.

Of course we are talking about MySpace users too.

Thanks for the info.

Thats why I use Roboform for my passwords

When I first read the story I laughed because it's the usual case of a journalist reporting half truths and blowing things out of proportions to sell a story. He seems to inicate that now browsers have phishing alerts people have suddenly forgotten the years of anti phishing advice they have had drummed into them.

As to Firefoxs password function going off the domain as opposed to the full url I'd say this was the writers choice as opposed to a flaw.


So the 'problem' definetely exists in Firefox but possibly not in IE so he goes and informs the Microsoft for whom it may not be an issue but apparently does not inform Mozilla?


I have yet to see a forum script that would allow this type of HTML to be posted.