This Mozilla bug has to be simultaneously one of the funnier and sadder things I’ve seen on the internet recently.
“This privacy flaw [in Firefox] has caused my fiancé and I to break-up after having dated for 5 years,” the woman says. “The privacy flaw is this: when he went to log-in under his dating sites (jdate.com, swinglifestyle.com, adultfriendfinder.com, etc.), Mozilla promptly asks whether or not he’d like Firefox to save the passwords for him. He chose never, obviously…[later] 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.”
Funny because she chose to reveal all of this incredibly personal information in a public bug reporting tool, and because of the ensuing conversations. Sad because she’s upset that “[Firefox caused them] to break-up after having dated for 5 years,” instead of being grateful that Firefox prevented her from entering into what clearly was a relationship destined for a horrible, horrible future.
