Little Known Ways to Manage Your Passwords
If you spend most of your time online, you have likely accumulated a plenty of passwords for accessing shopping, email, and many other websites. The number of these passwords could become bulky forcing you to simply use the equal password for the whole of the websites they visit.
Actually, using the equal password to get access to all of your beloved websites is a security risk as everyone who learns of your password can easily get your access to private information. This is especially true if you often spend your money online or do online backing over the web.
Luckily, Firefox offers a built in feature that can assist you manage entire of your online passwords by remembering them just for you. Moreover, you’re able to set a master password therefore you don’t have to remember every password for every website you visit.
Setup Password Management
First of all, fire up your browser ( Firefox ) and then click on menu Tools>Options. Click on the Security tab and you’ll see a section of the window titled Passwords.
Check an option labeled “Remember Passwords for Sites” and Firefox will start recalling the passwords you use on a lot of websites you visit. Take a look!! the Exceptions button will be available if you select to check the option.
The Exceptions button will pops up another windows where you could point out for which websites Firefox must not remember passwords. This is good for people who want their browser to remember everyday passwords however do not want the browser remembering passwords for particular sites like banks, shopping, or other websites that save crucial information about the visitor.
After Firefox is remembering all of your passwords, you can click the Saved Passwords button at any time and see the list of websites, usernames, as well as passwords saved by Firefox. If you have a plenty of passwords, you could even use the Search box to quickly find your password in case you require it.
The matter is everyone who also use your computer will have access to your crucial information on these sites. Therefore, you have to set a master password to unlock these passwords from others.
Check also the Use A Master Password option and the browser will open a dialog box asking you few information. If now you don’t have a master password assigned, It will prompt you to type in a new password.
Firefox will even check your master password and inform you how secure is it. Please make sure to keep it in mind, or write it down, and/or save it in a safe place ( if necessary) as if you forget it, the worst will happens.
you will not be able to access any of the information protected by it
Besides being an useful feature, having the browser recall your passwords could improve your security for many reasons. First, you don’t need to remember a lot of passwords for your favorite websites. And, you have been avoided using the same password for a lot websites, which is very risky.