How secure are passwords stored by Firefox and Chrome?

1 points by bayoumedic 12y ago ↗ HN

I installed Passware 12.3, a password recovery program and after testing it out found something interesting. I tried the website password recovery option and was instantly shown a list of every password I had saved using Firefox and the website it belonged to. No results showed up for Chrome however. As far as Internet Explorer goes well I haven't used it in about 10 years. Looks like Firefox will be uninstalled and never used again.

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BtM909 12y ago ↗

OR you open up a ticket with Mozilla and help them (in)directly to make the browser more secure. If you uninstall Firefox, it won't increase security for others :)

pwg 12y ago ↗

A much more secure option: https://github.com/zdia/gorilla/wiki

Store your passwords externally to the browser, then it no longer matters which browser you use, and as well you don't have to worry about how secure any browser is at "storing" all your passwords.