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OmniWeb 5 - Powerful and feature-laden web browser
Authored by: syko on Sep 08, '04 11:48:07AM

"Well, by all means, go to Safari. It saves names and passwords in the keychain and has done so for a while."

since when?

i just tried it again and it doesn't....



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OmniWeb 5 - Powerful and feature-laden web browser
Authored by: michaelj on Sep 08, '04 12:52:41PM

syko, look at Safari's preferences. Click the auto fill tab. By default the option to store user names and passwords is unchecked. If you simply check that box, Safari will store that data. This option has been there since the first release.



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OmniWeb 5 - Powerful and feature-laden web browser
Authored by: syko on Sep 09, '04 02:10:51AM

i stand corrected!!

now why didn't apple enable this by default??

ARGGGG



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OmniWeb 5 - Powerful and feature-laden web browser
Authored by: lavar78 on Sep 09, '04 09:34:45AM

It shouldn't be enabled by default. There are privacy issues, so it's best to let the user enable it if desired.



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OmniWeb 5 - Powerful and feature-laden web browser
Authored by: Blah on Sep 11, '04 04:11:46PM
It shouldn't be enabled by default. There are privacy issues, so it's best to let the user enable it if desired.
You beat me to it - but that's absolutely correct. I would never enable or use that on any computer. And the fact that various apps gather personal info from other apps (like address book) automatically and invisibly sucks. As a privacy advocate myself, I won't use Address Book at all for that reason.

The thing that's really sad is that browsers (most, if not all) have cookies fully enabled by default across the board. Leading to the pervasive cookie abuse we have now. At least OW lets you specify what you'll accept with fine granularity. I'm going to give it another look....



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