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The first approach when trying to figgure out how to make any program do what you want is to drop down its HELP menu and see what is there. Or press the HELP key F1 on your keyboard. In the case of Firefox the help information is not held locally on your computer it is at the Firefox website, where it provide a search box. I typed [password removal] in the search and it cam up with various pages, not directly answering the question, but one of them was this: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Protecting+stored+passwords+using+a+master+password?s=password+removal&as=s [a]http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Protecting+stored+passwords+using+a+master+password?s=password+removal&as=s[/a] Which shows how to install a master password to protect all the stored website passwords. As you see a short way down that help page it tells you to drop down the EDIT menu and select PREFERENCES and then SECURITY. [br][/br] And you could follow the procedure to set a master password, but also on that dialog box is a button called [saved passwords]. Click that button and it leads to the dialog box for managing the saved passwords and for removing them from the list. [red]REMINDER: On ordinary shopping or discussion websites etc never define the same password(s) that you use for any of your financial logins such as banks or Paypal or credit cards etc. And try to avoid having a shopping site remember your credit card details (unfortunately a lot of them do memorise the details). If it does memorise your credit card detail go back to your shopping site account details and make sure you used a good secure password or change it to a good one.. A good password should be LONG at least over 12 symbols long and should contain both upper and lower case letters, some digits and some graphic symbols if allowed. Keep a record of your passwords in a secure paper booklet such as an old diary and don't make it too obvious which website a given password belongs to. [/red] Tips for making passwords: try using a few simple rules to help you. e.g i)use TWO or THREE words strung together (no spaces), ii)perhaps use digits to separate the words. iii)Use some sort of rule for the digits such as the digits of the date on which you defined the password or a count of the letters in the preceding word iv)Avoid capitalizing the first letter of each word, instead always capitalize the second or the third or the last or those letters that happen to occur in your own name or in the other word of a two word pair. v) don't tell anyone else the rules you choose. Bill. Revised on 10 Apr 2011
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