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		bad_user on Nov 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't use autofill in your browser Strange, but for me Firefox does not auto-fill passwords, unless you provide a username (and of course, you opted into auto-filling). What did it do, as I don't understand? Did it automatically auto-fill password fields that happened to get loaded on the page?

praseodym on Nov 1, 2013 [–]

It indeed autofilled password fields on the page. Haven't re-tested it, but I think most browsers still show the same behaviour.

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