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1 posted on 04/17/2006 5:58:37 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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Hmmmm .... this is just dumb, ofcourse Firefox ( or any other programs ) must save somewhere it's preferences. This is what this is, it's not a privacy issue.


2 posted on 04/17/2006 6:02:51 AM PDT by Panerai
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"This privacy flaw has caused my fiancé and I to break-up after having dated for 5 years."

Somehow, I think there a much deeper reason for the breakup.

4 posted on 04/17/2006 6:06:15 AM PDT by TommyDale
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As someone posted there, the solution is clear: Never share your computer with your girlfriend. ;^)


5 posted on 04/17/2006 6:06:52 AM PDT by AntiGuv (The 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty is bad for America and bad for humanity - DUMP IT!)
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Honey, take me back!


6 posted on 04/17/2006 6:08:45 AM PDT by Fighting Irish
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Actually, porn shows up for no reason on my computer all the time. I have no idea how it gets there. Must be them buggers at Mozilla trying to do me in!!!!
8 posted on 04/17/2006 6:10:39 AM PDT by jdm (Screaming ALREADY POSTED! since 2004)
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She should be thanking Firefox for alerting her to the possibility of being married to a jerk...........


9 posted on 04/17/2006 6:11:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (In warfare there are no constant conditions. --- The Art of War by SunTzu)
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This privacy flaw has caused my fiancé and I to break-up after having dated for 5 years.

The privacy flaw is this: when he went to log-in under his dating sites (jdate.com, swinglifestyle.com, adultfriendfinder.com, etc.),

lol!

10 posted on 04/17/2006 6:11:20 AM PDT by Dark Skies
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So basically she broke up with him due to an undocumented feature.
14 posted on 04/17/2006 6:13:58 AM PDT by Heatseeker (Never underestimate the left's tendency to underestimate us.)
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Hey it could have been worse, your fiance' could have been visiting sites like "hotguys.com", "hotgayandproud.com", etc. and then you would have even more to worry about, depending upon the intimacy of your previous relationship. ;)


15 posted on 04/17/2006 6:15:27 AM PDT by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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Thanks to Firefox this couple won't be visiting Dear Abby, a Psychologist/Psychiatrist, or divorce (defense?) attorneys. I think I'll stick with Firefox.


16 posted on 04/17/2006 6:15:50 AM PDT by FreePaul
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"This privacy flaw has caused my fiancé and I to break-up after having dated for 5 years."


Engaged for five years? Just how long were you going to "try it"?

Just as well you broke up. Neither one of you is very good at decision making.




17 posted on 04/17/2006 6:19:34 AM PDT by G.Mason (Duty, Honor, Country)
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You can simply delete them.


18 posted on 04/17/2006 6:20:11 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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Don't write it down if you don't want it published. Don't throw rocks when you live in a glass house. A man and his perversions are soon outed. Those rules have applied since cave drawings. Seems like good solid advice.

A little more light under the rocks please. Then we can really evaluate the quality of those news sources.


26 posted on 04/17/2006 6:33:39 AM PDT by Steamburg (Pretenders everywhere)
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"This privacy flaw My general stupidity, along with searching for a new "Ho" on a shared computer have caused my fiancé and I to break-up after having dated for 5 years."

Fixed it.

27 posted on 04/17/2006 6:34:09 AM PDT by Recovering Hermit (A hermit is a deserter from the army of humanity.)
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This privacy flaw has caused my fiancé and I to break-up after having dated for 5 years.

Your biggest mistake occurred when you wrote the above sentence. Anyone who paid the least bit of attention in grade school would know that the correct grammatical form is "...caused my fiancé and me to break up."

The verb here is "caused" and "my fiancé and me" are objects of the verb. The correct form for I/me when used as the object of a verb is obviously "me."

You would automatically say, "Caused me to break up...." Just because there are now two objects (or, if you prefer, a compound object), there is no reason to switch from the object form ("me") to the subject form ("I.")

31 posted on 04/17/2006 6:48:28 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
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I guess she owes Firefox a letter of thanks...


33 posted on 04/17/2006 7:12:13 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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I'm not positive, but I believe that if you set a "master password", you shouldn't be able to view the information as reported.

Otherwise, I would consider this to be a privacy bug.

One user should not have access to the preferences of another.

This could also be facilitated by an XP permissions failure.

I know that on Linux systems, the situation described is not possible because you don't have read access to the /home/$user/.mozilla directory.

Perhaps a change in operating systems is in order. ;-)

 

38 posted on 04/17/2006 8:02:12 AM PDT by zeugma (Anybody who says XP is more secure than OS X or Linux has been licking toads.)
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Good thing you got rid of that bum...

What makes you think the next one will be any better...

You will probably just keep going through them till you get to the point..where you will settle...but in your mind...you will make yourself believe that the 'golden one' is 'perfect for you...

Good luck...but remember when fishing in cess ponds...don't be too surprised when you end up with a few turds on your hook...


44 posted on 04/17/2006 8:51:22 AM PDT by joesnuffy
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Doo-oh


46 posted on 04/17/2006 9:14:52 AM PDT by Gamecock ( "I save dead people" -- God (Eph 2:5)
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I went into the Password Manager to change the saved password option from Never to Always and that's when I saw all these other sites that had been selected as "Never Save Password." Of course, those were sites I had never visited or could ever dream of visiting.

Total BS.

I just tested it by logging off of my XP account and logging in to my wife's XP account, opening Firefox and checking the Password Manager.
The first two sites listed in my list are for juno.com and computing.net...along with many, many more. This includes the "Saved" and "Never saved" tabs.
Those two sites do not appear anywhere in Password Manager under my wife's XP/Firefox account. In fact, there are only 4 sites listed in hers as she is an infrequent browser.

The only explanation is that they were using the same Firefox account somehow.

48 posted on 04/17/2006 9:18:51 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (I can't complain...but sometimes I still do.)
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