What is Firefox Password Manager?

In Firefox, the Password Manager stores names and passwords on your hard drive and enters them automatically when you visit certain sites. This can be helpful if you don't want to enter your username and password every time you visit web sites that require you to log in. However, for security reasons, you may prefer to enter this information yourself rather than save it on your hard drive. If so, when Firefox asks if you want it to remember your password, click Never for This Site. To postpone the decision, click Not Now, and Firefox will prompt you the next time you visit the site.

If you have passwords saved that you no longer want stored, follow the appropriate steps below.

Windows

1. In Firefox, from the Tools menu, select Options... .
   
   
2. On the left, click Privacy.
   
   
3. Click Saved Passwords.
   
   
4. To delete all your saved passwords from your hard drive, click Clear.

   To view your saved passwords so that you can choose which ones you'd like to delete, click View Saved Passwords. Highlight the passwords you'd like to delete and click Remove. When you're finished, click Close.

5. If you'd like to keep Firefox from storing any more passwords, uncheck Remember Passwords.
   
   
6. To close the Options dialog box, click OK.

Mac OS X

1. In Firefox, from the Firefox menu, choose Preferences... .
   
   
2. Click the Privacy icon near the top of the page.
   
   
3. Click the Passwords tab.
   
   
4. To open the Password Manager, click View Saved Passwords. This will allow you to see the sites for which you've elected to save passwords and sites for which you've elected to never save passwords. Manage your passwords as follows:
   
   
   • To delete all saved passwords, from the Passwords Saved tab, click Remove All.
   • To remove certain passwords and not others, select a specific site within the Password Manager and click Remove. When you've finished deleting stored passwords, close the Password Manager.
     
     
5. If you'd like to keep Firefox from storing any more passwords, uncheck Remember Passwords.