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<title>Using Privacy Features</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="helpFileLayout.css"
type="text/css"/>
</head>
<body>
<h1 id="using_the_cookie_manager">Using the Cookie Manager</h1>
<p>A cookie is a small amount of information on your computer that is used by
some sites. For a brief overview, see
<a href="privacy_help.xhtml#what_are_cookies_and_how_do_they_work">What Are
Cookies and How Do They Work?</a></p>
<p>Before loading a web page that uses cookies, your browser handles the
page's cookies by doing two things:</p>
<ul>
<li>Accepts or rejects any requests by the site to <strong>set</strong>
(store) one or more cookies on your computer.</li>
<li>Accepts or rejects any requests by the site to <strong>read</strong>
cookies it previously stored on your computer. A site can't
actually read cookies or any other data on your computer—instead,
your browser gets the cookies and sends them back to the site.</li>
</ul>
<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
<ul>
<li><a href="#enabling_and_disabling_cookies">Enabling & Disabling
Cookies</a></li>
<li><a href="#managing_cookies_site-by-site">Managing Cookies
Site-By-Site</a></li>
<li><a href="#viewing_cookies">Viewing Cookies</a></li>
<li><a href="#removing_cookies">Removing Cookies</a></li>
<li><a href="#setting_privacy_levels">Setting Privacy Levels</a></li>
<li><a href="#cookie_manager_settings">Cookie Manager Settings</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<h2 id="enabling_and_disabling_cookies">Enabling & Disabling Cookies</h2>
<p>You can specify how cookies should be handled by setting your Cookies
preferences. The default setting is <q>Allow all cookies</q>.</p>
<p>To change your Cookies preferences:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Cookies. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
the list.)</li>
<li>Set your Cookies preferences.</li>
</ol>
<p>For more information about the effect of each setting, see
<a href="#cookies">Privacy & Security Preferences - Cookies</a>.</p>
<p>[<a href="#using_the_cookie_manager">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="managing_cookies_site-by-site">Managing Cookies Site-By-Site</h2>
<p>To set cookie permissions for the current site:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the Tools menu and choose Cookie Manager.</li>
<li>Choose one of the following items:
<ul>
<li><strong>Block Cookies from this Site</strong>: Block the
current site from setting cookies.</li>
<li><strong>Use Default Cookie Permissions</strong>: Reset
cookie permission for the current site and use the
<a href="#cookie_manager_settings">default settings</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Allow Session Cookies from this Site</strong>: Allow
the current site to set session cookies. Persistent cookies from
this site will be downgraded to session cookies.</li>
<li><strong>Allow Cookies from this Site</strong>: Allow the
current site to set cookies.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<p>To <a href="#add_cookie_sites">set cookie permission</a> for several sites
or a site you are not viewing, use the Cookie Manager.</p>
<p>If you have selected <q>Ask for each cookie</q> in
<a href="#cookie_manager_settings">Privacy & Security Preferences -
Cookies</a>, you will be warned (while browsing) that a web site is asking to
set a cookie. When you see such a warning, you can choose to
Allow, Allow for Session, or Deny the cookie.</p>
<p>Other dialog options:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Use my choice for all cookies from this site</strong>:
If you check this option, you will not be warned the next time
that site tries to set or modify a cookie, and your <q>allow</q> or
<q>deny</q> response will still be in effect.</li>
<li><strong>Show Details</strong>/<strong>Hide Details</strong>:
Click the button to show or hide <a href="#viewing_cookies">detailed
information</a> of the cookie.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you want to change a remembered response later, use the Cookie Manager
to edit <a href="#stored_cookies">stored cookies</a> and
<a href="#cookie_sites">add or remove cookie sites</a>.</p>
<p>To stop automatically accepting or rejecting cookies from a site:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the Tools menu and choose Cookie Manager.</li>
<li>Choose Manage Stored Cookies from the submenu. The Cookie Manager window
opens with a list of all the cookies stored on your computer.</li>
<li>Click the Cookie Sites tab. The sites for which you have allowed or
denied cookies are listed.</li>
<li>Click to select the site from which you no longer want to automatically
accept cookies, and then click Remove Cookie.</li>
</ol>
<p>[<a href="#using_the_cookie_manager">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="viewing_cookies">Viewing Cookies</h2>
<p>To view detailed information about cookies:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the Tools menu and choose Cookie Manager.</li>
<li>Choose Manage Stored Cookies from the submenu. The Cookie Manager window
opens with a list of all the cookies stored on your computer.</li>
<li>Select a cookie to see its details.</li>
</ol>
<p>For more information about the information displayed, see
<a href="#stored_cookies">Stored Cookies</a>.</p>
<p>[<a href="#using_the_cookie_manager">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="removing_cookies">Removing Cookies</h2>
<p><strong>Important</strong>: To remove cookies, follow the steps in this
section. Do not try to edit the cookies file on your computer.</p>
<p>To remove one or more cookies from your computer:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the Tools menu and choose Cookie Manager.</li>
<li>Choose Manage Stored Cookies from the submenu. The Cookie Manager window
opens with a list of all the cookies stored on your computer.</li>
<li>Select one or more cookies and click Remove Cookie, or click Remove All
Cookies.</li>
</ol>
<p>Even though you've removed the cookies now, you will reacquire those
same cookies the next time you return to the site.</p>
<p>To prevent that from happening, select the checkbox labeled <q>Don't
allow sites that set removed cookies to set future cookies</q>. When this
checkbox is selected, sites for the cookies that you are removing are
added to the list of sites whose cookies will automatically be rejected.</p>
<p>You must click OK for your changes to take effect.</p>
<p>[<a href="#using_the_cookie_manager">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="setting_privacy_levels">Setting Privacy Levels</h2>
<p>Many sites develop and publish their privacy policies based on the
Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) standard. The information that follows
applies only to sites that post a privacy policy based on the P3P standard
and the browser's implementation of that standard. The browser's
implementation may not be, in all cases, identical to the standard published
by the World Wide Web Consortium.</p>
<p>A site's P3P privacy policy describes, in a standardized way, what
kind of information the site collects, to whom it gives that information, and
how it uses the information. For information about viewing a site's
privacy policy, see <a href="#viewing_privacy_policies">Viewing Privacy
Policies</a>.</p>
<p>&brandShortName;'s implementation of the P3P standard defines three
levels of privacy: low, medium, and high (the default is medium). You can
select one of these predefined privacy levels, or you can specify your own
custom privacy settings in detail. Once you have set your preferred privacy
level, your browser can compare your preferences with the site's P3P
policy (if any) and accept or reject cookies accordingly.</p>
<p>For example, your privacy settings may require the browser to reject cookies
that collect personal information without informing you. Alternatively, you
can adjust your privacy settings so that the browser simply warns you when a
cookie is used in this way, while allowing the action to take place.</p>
<p>To control the privacy settings you want your browser to enforce for all
sites:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Cookies. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
the list.)</li>
<li>Select the option labeled <q>Allow cookies based on privacy
settings</q>.</li>
<li>Click View.</li>
<li>In the Privacy Settings dialog box, select the level of privacy you want,
or select <q>custom</q> and specify your own privacy settings as
discussed below.</li>
<li>Click OK to confirm your settings.</li>
</ol>
<p>Your browser handles cookies according to the settings you select. If you do
not select a preferred setting, the browser defaults to medium. The low,
medium, and high options are predefined by &brandShortName;. For more
information about these predefined options, see
<a href="#privacy_settings">Privacy Settings</a>.</p>
<p>When the <q>custom</q> option is selected, you can specify your own
privacy settings in detail. Depending on the P3P policy of the site setting
the cookie, and depending on whether or not the site setting the cookie is
the one you are viewing, you can select whether you want the Cookie Manager
to accept the cookie, reject it, accept it just for the current session (that
is, until you exit the browser), or flag it.</p>
<p>If you choose Reject, Flag, or Session for a given category of cookies, the
Cookie Manager displays the cookie notification icon
(<img alt="cookie notification icon"
src="chrome://communicator/skin/permissions/taskbar-cookie.gif"/>)
near the lower-right corner of the browser window whenever a site that
fits the category sets a cookie. When this icon is displayed, you can click
it to get information about the affected cookies.</p>
<p><q>First party cookies</q> are cookies set by the site you are
visiting. <q>Third-party cookies</q>, also known as
<a href="privacy_help.xhtml#what_are_third-party_cookies">foreign cookies</a>,
are set by sites other than the one you are viewing.</p>
<p>For more details, see <a href="#privacy_settings">Privacy Settings</a>.</p>
<p>[<a href="#using_the_cookie_manager">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h1 id="cookie_manager_settings">Cookie Manager Settings</h1>
<p>This section describes how to set your Cookies preferences and control other
aspects of cookie handling.</p>
<p>For step-by-step descriptions of various tasks related to cookies, see
<a href="#using_the_cookie_manager">Using the Cookie Manager</a>.</p>
<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
<ul>
<li><a href="#cookies">Privacy & Security Preferences -
Cookies</a></li>
<li><a href="#stored_cookies">Stored Cookies</a></li>
<li><a href="#cookie_sites">Cookie Sites</a></li>
<li><a href="#privacy_settings">Privacy Settings</a></li>
<li><a href="#cookie_notification">Cookie Notification</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<h2 id="cookies">Privacy & Security Preferences - Cookies</h2>
<p>Your browser is set by default to accept all cookies. This section describes
how to use the Cookies preferences panel to change that setting. If
you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Cookies. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
the list.)</li>
</ol>
<p>Cookies help sites keep track of information for you, such as the
contents of your on-line shopping cart or which cities' weather you want
to know about. For a brief overview, see
<a href="privacy_help.xhtml#what_are_cookies_and_how_do_they_work">What Are
Cookies and How Do They Work?</a></p>
<p>You can select one of these options:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Block cookies</strong>: Select this option to refuse all
cookies.</li>
<li><strong>Allow cookies for the originating website only</strong>: Select
this option if you don't want to accept or return
<a href="privacy_help.xhtml#what_are_third-party_cookies">foreign
cookies</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Allow cookies based on privacy settings</strong>: Select this
option if you handle cookies based on your privacy settings. If you select
this option, click the View Privacy Settings button to confirm or modify
your privacy settings.</li>
<li><strong>Allow all cookies</strong>: This is the default option. Select
this option to permit all sites not explicitly blocked to set cookies on
your computer.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: Blocking cookies does not remove old cookies. By
blocking cookies you only block sites from setting new cookies, and old
cookies will still be sent to sites. To completely block a site from receiving
old cookies, you need to <a href="#removing_cookies">remove its cookies</a>.
</p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: <a href="#cookie_sites">Per-site cookie permission</a>
supersedes default cookie setting. For example, if you allow a site to set
cookies, the site can set cookies even if you choose <q>Block cookies</q>.
</p>
<p>If you allow cookies or do not change the default setting, you can also
select the following preferences:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Accept cookies normally</strong>: Select this
if you want sites to set or modify cookies without restrictions.</li>
<li><strong>Accept for current session only</strong>: Select this to delete
the cookie the next time you exit your browser.</li>
<li><strong>Accept cookies for [__] days</strong>: Select this if you
want to limit the length of time any cookie can remain on your computer,
then type the number of days.</li>
<li><strong>Ask for each cookie</strong>: Select this if you want
Cookie Manager to warn you each time a site is about to store a cookie.
In addition, you can choose <strong>except for session cookies</strong>: so
that &brandShortName; will not warn you if the site is setting cookies
which will be deleted when you exit your browser.</li>
</ul>
<p>You can also get more information about your stored cookies:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Manage Stored Cookies</strong>: Click this button to view
information about the cookies currently stored on your computer and which
sites are allowed to set them.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="stored_cookies">Stored Cookies</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Stored Cookies tab of the Cookie
Manager. If you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the Tools menu and choose Cookie Manager.</li>
<li>Choose Manage Stored Cookies from the submenu. The Cookie Manager window
opens with a list of all the cookies stored on your computer.</li>
</ol>
<p>The Stored Cookies tab lists all the cookies stored on your computer, the
sites they belong to, and their current status.</p>
<p>If you can't see the Status column, click the icon in the upper-right
corner of the table and select Status. This column indicates which cookies
have been flagged or accepted according to your
<a href="#privacy_settings">Privacy Settings</a>.</p>
<p>When you select a cookie in this list, the following information about that
cookie appears in the bottom portion of the tab:</p>
<table class="defaultTable">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Item</th>
<th>Explanation</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody class="tbody-default">
<tr>
<td>Name</td>
<td>The name assigned to the cookie by its originator.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Information</td>
<td>A string of characters containing the information a site tracks
for you. It might contain a user key or name by which you are
identified to the site, information about your interests, and so
forth.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Host or domain</td>
<td>Provides the name of the cookie's host or domain.
<p>A <strong>host</strong> cookie is sent back, during subsequent
visits, only to the <a href="glossary.xhtml#server">server</a> that
set it.</p>
<p>A <strong>domain</strong> cookie is sent back to any site
that's in the same domain as the site that set it. A site's
domain is the part of its URL that contains the name of an
organization, business, or school—such as netscape.com or
washington.org.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Path</td>
<td>The file pathway. This is provided only if the cookie should be sent
back to all URLs that are on that path or lower. For example,
<tt>http://a.b/x/y/z.html</tt> means that the cookie can also be set
for path <tt>x/</tt>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Send For</td>
<td>When this field is <q>For encrypted connections only</q> it means
that the browser checks the connection whenever the server asks for a
cookie and will not send it unless the connection is encrypted
(HTTPS).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Expires</td>
<td>The date and time at which the cookie will be deactivated. The
browser regularly removes expired cookies from your computer.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>To remove cookies, click one of these buttons:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Remove Cookie</strong>: Removes the selected cookie or cookies
from the list.</li>
<li><strong>Remove All Cookies</strong>: Removes all cookies from the
list.</li>
</ul>
<p>Select this checkbox to prevent the cookies you remove from being added back
into the list later:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Don't allow sites that set removed cookies to set future
cookies</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>Even if you remove cookies now, you will reacquire those same cookies the
next time you return to the site. To prevent that from happening, select
this checkbox. When this checkbox is selected, sites for the cookies that
you are removing are added to the list of sites whose cookies will
automatically be rejected.</p>
<p>You must click Close for your changes to take effect.</p>
<h2 id="cookie_sites">Cookie Sites</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Cookie Sites tab of the Cookie
Manager. If you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the Tools menu and choose Cookie Manager.</li>
<li>Choose Manage Stored Cookies from the submenu. The Cookie Manager window
opens with a list of all the cookies stored on your computer.</li>
<li>Click the Cookie Sites tab.</li>
</ol>
<p>The Cookie Sites tab of the Cookie Manager lists the sites for which your
decisions have been remembered, and what your decisions were. It also allows
you to add and remove sites from the list.</p>
<h3 id="add_cookie_sites">Adding Cookie Sites</h3>
<p>To add cookies sites manually:</p>
<ul>
<li>Enter the site address, e.g. <tt>www.mozilla.org</tt></li>
<li>Set the site cookie permission:
<ul>
<li><strong>Block</strong>: Click this button to add the site as a site
blocked from setting cookies.</li>
<li><strong>Session</strong>: Click this button to add the site as a site
that can set session cookies. Persistent cookies from this site will
be downgraded to session cookies.</li>
<li><strong>Allow</strong>: Click this button to add the site as a
site that can set cookies.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Repeat the steps to add additional sites.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="remove_cookie_sites">Removing Cookie Sites</h3>
<p>To remove a cookie site:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Remove Site</strong>: Removes the selected site or sites from the
list.</li>
<li><strong>Remove All Sites</strong>: Removes all sites from the list.</li>
</ul>
<p>Once you've removed a site from this list, Cookie Manager remembers
nothing about it. If the <q>Ask for each cookie</q> option is selected in
the Cookies preferences panel, you will be warned when any site not in this
list requests permission to set a cookie.</p>
<h2 id="privacy_settings">Privacy Settings</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Privacy Settings window. If
you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Cookies. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
the list.)</li>
<li>Select the radio button labeled <q>Allow cookies based on privacy
settings</q>.</li>
<li>Click View Privacy Settings.</li>
</ol>
<p>For more information about using privacy settings, see
<a href="#setting_privacy_levels">Setting Privacy Levels</a>.</p>
<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
<ul>
<li><a href="#level_of_privacy">Level of Privacy</a></li>
<li><a href="#cookie_acceptance_policy">Cookie Acceptance Policy</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<h3 id="level_of_privacy">Level of Privacy</h3>
<p>The level of privacy you set here determines how your browser treats cookies
according to privacy policies based on the P3P standard that published by
some sites and on the settings displayed under Cookie Acceptance Policy
for first-party and third-party cookies.</p>
<p><q>First party cookies</q> are cookies set by the site you are
visiting. <q>Third-party cookies</q>, also known as
<a href="privacy_help.xhtml#what_are_third-party_cookies">foreign
cookies</a>, are set by sites other than the one you are viewing.</p>
<p>You can select one of the following privacy levels:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>low</strong>: Select this if you want to accept all first-party
cookies without regard to a site's privacy policy.
<p>When this setting is selected, the browser accepts all third-party
cookies, but <strong>flags</strong> third-party cookies from sites that
indicate they may collect personally identifiable information without
your consent. Flagged cookies are listed as <q>flagged</q> in the
status column of the Cookie Manager's
<a href="#stored_cookies">Stored Cookies</a> tab.</p>
<p>When a cookie is first flagged, the Cookie Manager displays the cookie
notification icon (<img alt="cookie notification icon"
src="chrome://communicator/skin/permissions/taskbar-cookie.gif"/>) near
the lower-right corner of the browser window (if it's not already
present). You can click the cookie notification icon to see more detailed
information about the flagged cookies.</p>
</li>
<li><strong>medium</strong>: Select this if you want to accept and flag both
first-party and third-party cookies set by sites that may be collecting
personally identifiable information without your consent. This is the
default setting.</li>
<li><strong>high</strong>: Select this if you want the same settings as
medium, with the following differences:
<ul>
<li>Reject third-party cookies set by sites that may be collecting
information without your consent that can be used to identify you.</li>
<li>Accept, for the current session only, third-party cookies that may be
collecting information without your consent that can be used to
identify you, but also provide a web page or some other mechanism that
allows you to withhold your consent.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>custom</strong>: Select this if you want to set your own custom
Cookie Acceptance Policy. The default settings for <q>custom</q> are
whatever they happened to be just before you select this option. You can
modify them by selecting from the drop-down menus in the Cookie Acceptance
Policy portion of the dialog box.</li>
</ul>
<p>To see the exact effect of each privacy-level setting, select it and then
examine the Cookie Acceptance Policy settings.</p>
<h3 id="cookie_acceptance_policy">Cookie Acceptance Policy</h3>
<p>If you select the <strong>custom</strong> option in the top portion of the
Privacy Settings dialog box, you can choose one of four settings from the
drop-down list in each of the eight categories shown in the bottom portion.
These settings cause Cookie Manager to perform the following actions:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Accept</strong>: Accept all cookies in the category.</li>
<li><strong>Session</strong>: Accept all cookies in the category for the
current session only—that is, until you exit the browser.</li>
<li><strong>Reject</strong>: Reject all cookies in the category.</li>
<li><strong>Flag</strong>: Lists the cookie's status as
<q>flagged</q> in the status column of the Cookie Manager's
<a href="#stored_cookies">Stored Cookies</a> tab and display the cookie
notification icon.</li>
</ul>
<p>The cookie notification icon (<img alt="cookie notification icon"
src="chrome://communicator/skin/permissions/taskbar-cookie.gif"/>) appears
near the lower-right corner of the browser window. You can click it to get
information about the affected cookies or modify your privacy settings.</p>
<p>Sites are classified in four categories for each of the two types
(first-party and third-party) of cookies:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Site has no privacy policy</strong>: Site does not publish any
kind of privacy policy. There is no way of knowing what kinds of
information such sites collect or what they do with it.</li>
<li><strong>Site collects personally identifiable information without your
consent</strong>: Site publishes a privacy policy, but does not ask your
permission when it collects personally identifiable information.</li>
<li><strong>Site collects personally identifiable information with only your
implicit consent</strong>: Site collects information about you unless you
go to a web page (or use some other designated mechanism) to explicitly
withhold your consent (opt-out).</li>
<li><strong>Site does not collect personally identifiable information without
your explicit consent</strong>: Sites will not collect personally
identifiable information unless you have explicitly agreed (opt-in).</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="cookie_notification">Cookie Notification</h2>
<p>The cookie notification icon (<img alt="cookie notification icon"
src="chrome://communicator/skin/permissions/taskbar-cookie.gif"/>) is
displayed in the status bar near the lower-right corner of the browser
window. It appears when a site has used a cookie in a way that requires you
to be notified according to your current <a href="#privacy_settings">Privacy
Settings</a>.</p>
<p>This section describes how to use the Cookie Notification dialog box, which
appears when you click the Cookie Notification icon. You can take the
following actions from this dialog box:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Turn Off Privacy Settings</strong>: Click this button to disable
your Privacy Settings. This has the same effect as selecting <q>Enable
all cookies</q> in <a href="#cookies">Privacy & Security
Preferences - Cookies</a>. After you take this action, your browser will
accept all cookies.</li>
<li><strong>View Cookie Manager</strong>: Click this button to open the
Cookie Manager, where you can view the current status of all your cookies
and identify the cookies that caused the notification icon to appear.</li>
<li><strong>View Privacy Settings</strong>: Click this button to open the
Privacy Settings dialog box. The settings in this dialog box determine how
sites can use cookies on your computer and what actions cause the cookie
notification icon to be displayed.</li>
<li><strong>Close</strong>: Click this button to exit the Cookie Notification
dialog box without taking any action.</li>
</ul>
<p>For more information about using privacy settings, see
<a href="#setting_privacy_levels">Setting Privacy Levels</a>.</p>
<h1 id="using_the_password_manager">Using the Password Manager</h1>
<p>Many sites require you to type a user name and password before you can
enter the site. For instance, personalized pages and sites containing your
financial information usually require you to log in.</p>
<p>The user name and password you use at a particular site can be read by the
site's administrator. Potentially, that person could then attempt to log
into other sites where you may have used the same user name and password. If
this concerns you, you may wish to use a different password at every site
with which you register.</p>
<p>Password Manager can help you remember some or all of your names and
passwords by storing them on your computer's hard disk, and entering
them for you automatically when you visit such sites.</p>
<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
<ul>
<li><a href=
"#using_password_manager_to_remember_user_names_and_passwords">Using
Password Manager to Remember User Names and Passwords</a></li>
<li><a href="#entering_user_names_and_passwords_automatically">Entering
User Names and Passwords Automatically</a></li>
<li><a href="#turning_password_manager_on_and_off">Turning Password Manager
On and Off</a></li>
<li><a href="#viewing_and_managing_stored_passwords">Viewing and Managing
Stored Passwords</a></li>
<li><a href="passwords_help.xhtml">Password Settings</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<h2 id="using_password_manager_to_remember_user_names_and_passwords">Using
Password Manager to Remember User Names and Passwords</h2>
<p>When Password Manager is active (as it is by default), it gives you an
opportunity to save user names and passwords on your hard drive that you
enter while using the Internet.</p>
<p>For example, after you log onto a site from a page that requests a user
name and password, a dialog box appears asking, <q>Do you want Password
Manager to remember this logon?</q> When you see this dialog box, you can
click one of the following buttons:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Yes</strong>: The next time you return to the site you'll
see that your user name and password are already filled in. All you have to
do is click the Login button (or equivalent) to send them to the
server.</li>
<li><strong>Never for this site</strong>: Password Manager will not ask in
the future if you want to save your user name and password for that
site.</li>
<li><strong>No</strong>: Password Manager won't remember the user name
and password, but will ask again the next time you visit the site.</li>
</ul>
<p>Similarly, when you log onto an email account or an FTP site, or perform any
other action that requires the browser itself to display a special dialog box
for your login information, you can select this option in the dialog box:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Use Password Manager to remember these values</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>The next time you check your email or perform other tasks that require a
password only, the password will be submitted directly without any further
action on your part. For tasks that require you to enter both a user name and
password, you need to click a Login button or equivalent after Password
Manager fills in the information.</p>
<p>Password Manager saves your user names and passwords on your own computer in
a file that's difficult, but not impossible, for an intruder to read.
See <a href="#encrypting_stored_sensitive_information">Encrypting Stored
Sensitive Information</a> for information on protecting your stored user
names and passwords with encryption technology.</p>
<p>If the Password Manager dialog box described above does not appear when you
click Submit after typing your user name and password, Password Manager may
be turned off or the site may disallow its use.</p>
<p>To check whether Password Manager is currently active, see
<a href="#turning_password_manager_on_and_off">Turning Password Manager On
and Off</a>.</p>
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section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="entering_user_names_and_passwords_automatically">Entering User Names
and Passwords Automatically</h2>
<p>There are two different ways that Password Manager can fill in user names
and passwords on your behalf:</p>
<ul>
<li>You use Password Manager to remember your user name and password for a
site (using the three-button dialog box described in
<a href=
"#using_password_manager_to_remember_user_names_and_passwords">Using
Password Manager to Remember User Names and Passwords</a>).
<p>The next time you visit the site, Password Manager automatically fills
in your user name and password on the site's log in page. You can
then click the Login button, or equivalent, to send the information to
the server.</p>
</li>
<li>You use Password Manager to remember your user name and password for an
email account, an FTP site, or in any other situation where you type login
information in a dialog box that displays a checkbox labeled <q>Use
Password Manager to remember these values</q>.
<p>In most cases, the next time you attempt to access that server, Password
Manager automatically fills in your user name and password in the same
dialog box. You can then click OK to send the information to the
server.</p>
<p>In some cases, such as when you open your email account,
&brandShortName; needs to send only the password to the server, and does
so immediately without displaying the dialog box or requiring any further
action on your part.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#using_the_password_manager">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="turning_password_manager_on_and_off">Turning Password Manager On and
Off</h2>
<p>Password Manager is on by default. To turn it off:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Passwords. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
the list.)</li>
<li>In the Password Manager section, deselect <q>Remember passwords</q>
to turn Password Manager off.</li>
</ol>
<p>To turn Password Manager on, follow steps 1 and 2 above, but select the
checkbox in step 3 rather than deselecting it.</p>
<p>[<a href="#using_the_password_manager">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="viewing_and_managing_stored_passwords">Viewing and Managing Stored
Passwords</h2>
<p>To see the user names and passwords you have stored and to display a list of
sites from which logon information never is saved:</p>
<ul>
<li>Open the Tools menu, choose Password Manager, and then choose Manage
Stored Passwords from the submenu. You see the Password Manager window with
the Passwords Saved tab opened.
<ul>
<li>To see your saved passwords, click Show Passwords and confirm your
choice.</li>
<li>To hide your passwords, click Hide Passwords.</li>
<li>To remove an entry from the list, click it and then click Remove. The
next time you visit the site, you will need to enter your user name
and password again, since Password Manager will no longer have the
information.</li>
</ul>
Click the Passwords Never Saved tab to see a list of the sites for which
you instructed Password Manager never to store user names and passwords. To
remove a site from this list, click it and then click Remove. The next
time you log into the site, you can use the stored user name and
password (if available) or indicate that you want Password Manager to save
the information for that site.</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#using_the_password_manager">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h1 id="using_the_form_manager">Using the Form Manager</h1>
<p>Many web pages contain forms for you to fill out—order forms for
online shopping, information databases, and so forth.</p>
<p>Form Manager can save the personal data you enter into online forms, such as
your name, address, phone, credit card numbers, and so on. This information
is stored on your hard drive. Then, when a site presents you with a form,
Form Manager can fill it in automatically.</p>
<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
<ul>
<li><a href="#saving_form_data">Saving Form Data</a></li>
<li><a href="#filling_out_forms_automatically">Filling Out Forms
Automatically</a></li>
<li><a href="#turning_off_form_manager_notification">Turning Off Form
Manager Notification</a></li>
<li><a href="#managing_stored_form_data">Managing Stored Form Data</a></li>
<li><a href="#editing_stored_site_information">Editing Stored Site
Information</a></li>
<li><a href="#viewing_privacy_policies">Viewing Privacy Policies</a></li>
<li><a href="#form_settings">Form Settings</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<h2 id="saving_form_data">Saving Form Data</h2>
<p>By default, when you fill out an online form and click Submit, Form Manager
detects the form and displays a dialog box asking if you want to save the
personal data you just entered. Soon, Form Manager will have enough data to
begin filling out forms automatically.</p>
<p>There are two ways to save personal data:</p>
<ul>
<li>Each time you submit an online form that includes certain kinds of
information, such as your name and address, Form Manager asks if you want
the information saved. Click Yes.
<p>Note that Form Manager prompts you only if its automatic notification
feature is turned on. (This feature is turned on by default.) For
details, see <a href="#turning_off_form_manager_notification">Turning Off
Form Manager Notification</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>After you fill out a form (but before you submit it), open the Edit menu
and choose Save Form Info.</li>
</ul>
<p>When Form Manager asks if you want to save values that you've entered
in a form (the first method described above), it gives you three options:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Yes</strong>: Click this button to save the information you
entered. In the future, you can automatically fill in a form that requests
the same information.</li>
<li><strong>Never for this site</strong>: Click this button to ensure that
Form Manager will not ask in the future if you want to save information
that you enter in forms at this site.
<p>You may want to do this if you want to ensure that you'll always
have to enter sensitive information manually at a particular site. You
can change your mind later if you like; for details, see
<a href="#editing_stored_site_information">Editing Stored Site
Information</a>.</p>
</li>
<li><strong>No</strong>: Form Manager won't save the information you
entered, but will ask again the next time you enter form information at
this site.</li>
</ul>
<p>Form Manager stores your personal data on your own computer in a file
that's difficult, but not impossible, for an intruder to read. See
<a href="#encrypting_stored_sensitive_information">Encrypting Stored
Sensitive Information</a> for information on protecting your information with
encryption technology.</p>
<p>[<a href="#using_the_form_manager">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="filling_out_forms_automatically">Filling Out Forms Automatically</h2>
<p>You can use the Form Manager to fill out forms automatically in two ways:
either one field at a time, or multiple fields at once. In both cases, the
information is not actually sent to the site until you click the Submit
button or perform some similar action.</p>
<p>To fill out a single field automatically in an online form, double-click in
the field. If Form Manager has stored the data for that field, it will fill
it in. You can edit the filled-in data if necessary.</p>
<p>To fill out multiple fields in an online form all at once:</p>
<ol>
<li>Go to the online form you want to fill out.</li>
<li>Open the Edit menu and choose Fill in Form.
<p>Note that the Fill in Form menu item won't be accessible if the
Form Manager hasn't yet stored any relevant information.</p>
</li>
<li>A dialog box called Prefill Form Data appears (unless you have previously
chosen to bypass it for this site). This shows exactly what information
Form Manager is about to fill in. You can use this dialog box as follows:
<ul>
<li>To prevent a field from being filled in automatically, deselect the
checkbox beside it.</li>
<li>To prevent any fields from being filled in automatically, click
Cancel.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Important</strong>: You can also choose to bypass this dialog
box in the future. However, if you bypass this screen, you risk filling
in personal information (such as your credit card number) inadvertently.
For details, see below.</p>
</li>
<li>Click OK to confirm your choices. Form Manager then fills in the form as
you specified.
<p>The form is now filled in with the saved information. You may still need
to provide some additional information that the Form Manager does not
have available. The information is not actually sent to the site until
you click Submit or perform some similar action.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>In addition to providing a convenient way to confirm saved data and fill in
a form all at once, the Prefill Form Data dialog box is useful for two
reasons:</p>
<ul>
<li>Prefill Form Data can help you prevent malicious sites from collecting
data you are not aware of.
<p>For example, it's possible for a site to hide a field on a form
where you can't see it and specify that field to be a credit card
number. If you prefill the form without first examining the information
displayed in the Prefill Form Data dialog box, you may end up providing
your credit card number to such a site without realizing it. Prefill
Form Data lets you see every value that will be provided to the site,
allowing you to detect such tricks.</p>
</li>
<li>Prefill Form Data allows you to select which of several saved values for
a given field you want to use for a particular site.</li>
</ul>
<p>For a detailed description of the Prefill Form Data dialog box, see
<a href="#prefill_form_data">Prefill Form Data</a>.</p>
<p>[<a href="#using_the_form_manager">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="turning_off_form_manager_notification">Turning Off Form Manager
Notification</h2>
<p>Form Manager is set to prompt you to save information whenever you submit an
online form that includes certain kinds of information, such as your name and
address. To stop these messages from appearing on your screen:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Forms. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
the list.)</li>
<li>In the Form Manager section, deselect <q>Save form data from web pages
when completing forms</q>.</li>
</ol>
<p>Note that deselecting this option turns off the notification feature, but
not Form Manager. The form data it may have already collected is still
available.</p>
<p>You can still open the Edit menu and choose Save Form Info any time you want
to save information from a form you've just filled in, or choose Fill in
Form (or double-click each field) to fill in a form automatically.</p>
<p>[<a href="#using_the_form_manager">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="managing_stored_form_data">Managing Stored Form Data</h2>
<p>To examine or edit personal data that Form Manager has saved:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>From the Privacy & Security category, click Forms. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
the list.)</li>
<li>Click Manage Stored Form Data.</li>
</ol>
<p>The Form Manager dialog box for editing data appears. Click the
subcategories on the left to view or edit the corresponding data in the panel
on the right. To view subcategories that aren't visible, double-click a
category to expand the list.</p>
<p>To add information not currently included in one of the drop down lists on
the right, select the blank item and start typing. Similarly, select existing
text to edit or delete it.</p>
<p>The last category on the left side, Other Saved Information, includes panels
for two special kinds of data:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Concatenations</strong> lists data stored as a single element
that would normally be stored as two or more elements. For example, data
stored from a single Full Name field that includes both your first and last
names would be stored here together rather than separately in those
individual categories.</li>
<li><strong>URL-Specific</strong> lists fields and the values to use for each
of them that are applicable only for the site where you entered
them.</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#using_the_form_manager">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="editing_stored_site_information">Editing Stored Site Information</h2>
<p>As explained in <a href="#saving_form_data">Saving Form Data</a>, you can
choose <q>Never for this site</q> when Form Manager prompts you to save
data you've entered in a form. Similarly, you can choose not to display
the Prefill Form Data dialog box on a site-by-site basis.</p>
<p>Form Manager lets you change your mind about these decisions at any time. To
view site-specific information about your saved form data:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>From the Privacy and Security category, click Forms. (If no subcategories
are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand the list.)</li>
<li>Click Manage Sites.</li>
</ol>
<p>The Form Manager dialog box for managing sites appears:</p>
<ul>
<li>The Forms Never Previewed tab lists the sites for which you've
decided not to display the Prefill Form Data dialog box.</li>
<li>The Forms Never Saved tab lists the sites for which you've asked not
to be prompted to save form data.</li>
</ul>
<p>To remove a site from either list and thus restore the default behavior,
select the site and click Remove. For more details, see
<a href="#form_manager_sites">Form Manager - Sites</a>.</p>
<p>[<a href="#using_the_form_manager">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="viewing_privacy_policies">Viewing Privacy Policies</h2>
<p>When you provide personal information such as your name, phone number, or
email address to a site, or when the site collects personal information in
other ways, the site can use the information for its own purposes (such as
shipping you a product or customizing your browsing experience) and can
potentially share it with others.</p>
<p>Before providing personal information on an online form, you must decide
whether or not you trust the site—just as you judge whether or not
you trust a catalog company before you provide your credit card number on the
company's order form.</p>
<p>One way to evaluate a site's trustworthiness is to examine its
published privacy policy. Sites publish privacy statements online, and
some of them publish such statements based on the Platform for Privacy
Preferences (P3P) standard and the browser's implementation of that
standard.</p>
<p>A site's privacy policy describes what kind of information the site
collects, to whom it gives that information, and how it uses the information.
Sites publish privacy policies in both human-readable form and as a file
that can be interpreted by the browser according to your
<a href="#privacy_settings">Privacy Settings</a>.</p>
<p>To view a site's privacy policy, browse to the site and follow these
steps:</p>
<ul>
<li>Open the View menu and choose Page Info. The Page Info window
appears.</li>
<li>Click the Privacy tab.</li>
<li>Click these buttons to see the corresponding information:
<ul>
<li><strong>Policy</strong>: Click this button to view the site's
published privacy policy on the web.</li>
<li><strong>Summary</strong>: Click this button to view a summary of the
site's built-in XML policy file, which defines the site's
policies in detail.</li>
<li><strong>Options</strong>: Click this button to view a web page
provided by the site where you can choose to withhold or grant your
consent to certain kinds of information gathering.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Many web pages are made up of a variety of text, images, advertisements, and
other elements, some of which may be controlled by different companies.</p>
<p>To view the same information for any individual element of the web page:</p>
<ol>
<li>Double-click the categories to see addresses for individual
components.</li>
<li>Select the component whose privacy policy you want to examine.</li>
<li>Click the buttons as described above.</li>
</ol>
<p>For more information on controlling your privacy, see
<a href="#setting_privacy_levels">Setting Privacy Levels</a>.</p>
<p>[<a href="#using_the_form_manager">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
<h1 id="form_settings">Form Settings</h1>
<p>When you fill out an online form, Form Manager normally detects the form
and, when you click Submit, gives you an opportunity to save the data you
entered.</p>
<p>This section describes the preferences and other settings that control the
way Form Manager works.</p>
<p>For step-by-step instructions on using these settings, see
<a href="#using_the_form_manager">Using the Form Manager</a>.</p>
<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
<ul>
<li><a href="#forms">Privacy & Security Preferences - Forms</a></li>
<li><a href="#form_manager_data">Form Manager - Data</a></li>
<li><a href="#form_manager_sites">Form Manager - Sites</a></li>
<li><a href="#prefill_form_data">Prefill Form Data</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<h2 id="forms">Privacy & Security Preferences - Forms</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the Forms preferences panel. If you are
not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Forms. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
the list.)</li>
</ol>
<h3 id="form_manager">Form Manager</h3>
<p>When you fill out an online form and click Submit, Form Manager displays a
dialog box that asks if you want it to save the form data you just entered
(but only some of the filled-in fields include standard ones such as name and
address).</p>
<p>If you click Yes at least some of the time, Form Manager will soon have
enough data to begin filling out forms automatically.</p>
<p>Form preferences allow you to:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Save form data from web pages when completing forms</strong>:
This checkbox determines whether you are asked if you want to save form
data every time you submit a new form. This option is selected by default.
If you deselect it, Form Manager never asks if you want to save form data.
The only way to save form data is for you open the Edit Menu and choose
Save Form Info while viewing a form that you've just filled in.
<p>Note that deselecting this option turns off the notification feature,
but not Form Manager. The form data it may have already collected is
still available. You can still open the Edit Menu and choose Fill in Form
or Save Form Info.</p>
</li>
<li><strong>Manage Stored Form Data</strong>: Click this button to examine or
edit personal data that Form Manager has saved. For details, see
<a href="#form_manager_data">Form Manager - Data</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Manage Sites</strong>: Click this button to view site-specific
information about your saved form data. For details, see
<a href="#form_manager_sites">Form Manager - Sites</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="form_manager_data">Form Manager - Data</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the window that allows you to edit data
saved on your behalf by the Form Manager. If you are not already viewing this
window, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Forms. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
the list.)</li>
<li>Click Manage Stored Form Data.</li>
</ol>
<p>The Form Manager window for managing stored form data allows you to perform
two tasks:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Category</strong>: Double-click a category in the Category column
to view its subcategories, and click a subcategory to view its data on the
right side of the window. To edit or add to the displayed data, click in a
field and type.
<p>To add information not currently included in one of the drop down lists
on the right, select the blank item and start typing. Similarly, select
existing text to edit or delete it.</p>
</li>
<li><strong>Remove All Saved Data</strong>: Click this button to remove all
the saved data at once.</li>
</ul>
<p>The last category on the left side, Other Saved Information, includes panels
for two special kinds of data:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Concatenations</strong>: The Form Manager typically captures and
prefills individual elements, such as first and last name, and combines
them when necessary. If it encounters a page that asks for a full name, for
example, it prefills it with the first and last name it has stored
previously.
<p>However, if the Form Manager hasn't yet stored your first and last
name, it saves the full name (if you ask it to) as a single element in
the Concatenations panel.</p>
</li>
<li><strong>URL-Specific</strong>: This panel lists URL-specific fields and
the values to use for each of them at each URL for which you have entered
such information.</li>
</ul>
<p>For step-by-step instructions on using the Form Manager, see
<a href="#using_the_form_manager">Using the Form Manager</a>.</p>
<h2 id="form_manager_sites">Form Manager - Sites</h2>
<p>This section describes how to use the dialog box that allows you to edit
site information saved on your behalf by Form Manager. If you are not already
viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Forms. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
the list.)</li>
<li>Click Manage Sites.</li>
</ol>
<p>The Form Manager window for managing sites has two tabs:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Forms Never Previewed</strong>: Click this tab to view the list
of sites for which you selected <q>Bypass this screen when prefilling
this form in the future</q> after choosing Fill in Form from the Edit
menu.
<p>If you remove an entry from this list, Form Manager will again give you
an opportunity to review form data for that site before filling it
in.</p>
</li>
<li><strong>Forms Never Saved</strong>: Click this tab to view the list of
sites for which you selected <q>Never for this site</q> in response to
the Form Manager's request to store form data.
<p>If you remove an entry from this list, Form Manager will again ask
whether to store form data when you submit forms at that site (assuming
that the main Form Manager notification option has been selected in
<a href= "#forms">Privacy & Security Preferences - Forms</a>).</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Regardless of which tab you are viewing, you can remove entries from the
list as follows:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Remove</strong>: Select one or more entries that you want to
remove, then click this button to remove them.</li>
<li><strong>Remove All</strong>: Click this button to remove all the entries
for the tab you are viewing.</li>
</ul>
<p>See the descriptions of each tab above for the consequences of removing
entries.</p>
<p>For step-by-step instructions on working with form data, see
<a href="#using_the_form_manager">Using the Form Manager</a>.</p>
<h2 id="prefill_form_data">Prefill Form Data</h2>
<p>This section describes the window that normally appears when you open the
Edit menu and choose Fill In Form.</p>
<p>However, the Fill in Form menu item is enabled only if you have previously
used Form Manager to save some form data and are now viewing a web page that
is requesting some of the same data. For step-by-step instructions on working
with form data, see <a href="#using_the_form_manager">Using the Form
Manager</a>.</p>
<p>The Prefill Form Data window allows you to perform these actions:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Click in a field to edit the displayed data</strong>: Any changes
you make here will be reflected in the data used to fill in this form, but
won't change your stored data.</li>
<li><strong>Select alternate data</strong>: Click the arrow on the right side
of any field to display a drop-down menu for that field. If you have
previously used Form Manager to save alternate information (for example, a
different mailing address), the available alternates are listed in the
menu.</li>
<li><strong>Check the items that you would like to have prefilled</strong>:
Only the items with checkmarks beside them will be filled in automatically.
When you first open the window, all the items are checked. Click to
deselect any that you don't want filled in automatically.</li>
<li><strong>Bypass this screen when prefilling this form in the
future</strong>: Select this checkbox to avoid seeing this window the next
time you visit this site. This can be convenient; for example, if you
frequently need to enter the same data at the same site.
<p><strong>Important</strong>: If you bypass this screen, you risk filling
in personal information (such as your credit card number) inadvertently.
For details, see <a href="#filling_out_forms_automatically">Filling Out
Forms Automatically</a>.</p>
<p>If you change your mind about this decision, you can restore the
Prefill Form Data window for this site. For details, see
<a href="#form_manager_sites">Form Manager - Sites</a>.</p>
</li>
<li><strong>View Stored Form Data</strong>: Click this button to examine or
edit all personal data that Form Manager has saved. For details, see
<a href="#form_manager_data">Form Manager - Data</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h1 id="encrypting_stored_sensitive_information">Encrypting Stored Sensitive
Information</h1>
<p>If you use Password Manager or Form Manager to save passwords and personal
data, then this sensitive information is stored on your computer in a file
that's difficult, but not impossible, for an intruder to read.</p>
<p>For example, if your computer is in an area where unauthorized people have
access to it, it's possible for a determined person to read the file
containing your sensitive information.</p>
<p>For a greater degree of security, you may want to protect the file with
encryption. Encryption makes it much harder for an unauthorized person to
view your stored sensitive information.</p>
<p>Your decision about whether to use encryption for stored sensitive data is a
tradeoff between improved security and convenience.</p>
<p>If you use encryption, you will need to enter a master password
periodically, which can be inconvenient. If you don't, it may be easier
for a stranger who has access to your computer to steal your passwords.</p>
<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
<ul>
<li><a href="#turning_encryption_on_and_off">Turning Encryption On and
Off</a></li>
<li><a href="#setting_a_master_password">Setting a Master Password</a></li>
<li><a href="#changing_your_master_password">Changing Your Master
Password</a></li>
<li><a href="#logging_out_of_your_master_password">Logging Out of Your
Master Password</a></li>
<li><a href="#what_to_do_if_you_forget_your_master_password">What to Do If
You Forget Your Master Password</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<h2 id="turning_encryption_on_and_off">Turning Encryption On and Off</h2>
<p>To turn on encryption for your stored sensitive information:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Passwords. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
the list.)</li>
<li>In the Encrypting versus Obscuring section, select <q>Use encryption
when storing sensitive data</q>.</li>
<li>Click OK. If you haven't previously set a master password, a new
dialog box appears and leads you through the process of setting it.</li>
</ol>
<p>To turn encryption off, deselect <q>Use encryption when storing sensitive
data</q>.</p>
<p>You must supply your master password when you turn encryption on or off.</p>
<p>[<a href="#encrypting_stored_sensitive_information">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="setting_a_master_password">Setting a Master Password</h2>
<p>If you choose to encrypt your stored sensitive information, you'll need
a master password. With encryption selected, you'll be asked for your
master password at least once during a &brandShortName; session in which you
access any of your stored sensitive information.</p>
<p>If you choose encryption, but don't already have a master password,
you'll be prompted to create one the first time you try to save or
retrieve your sensitive information.</p>
<p>If your master password has not previously been set, you can set at this
time:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Master Passwords. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
the list.)</li>
<li>In the Change Master Password section, click Change Password to open the
Change Master Password dialog box.</li>
<li>Enter your desired master password, and retype it to confirm the
spelling.</li>
<li>Click OK.</li>
</ol>
<p>Make sure your new password is difficult to guess. For some suggestions on
how to improve password security, see
<a href="passwords_help.xhtml#choosing_a_good_password">Choosing a Good
Password</a>.</p>
<p>[<a href="#encrypting_stored_sensitive_information">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="changing_your_master_password">Changing Your Master Password</h2>
<p>To change your master password:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Master Passwords. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
the list.)</li>
<li>In the Change Master Password section, click Change Password to open the
Change Master Password dialog box.</li>
<li>Enter your current master password.</li>
<li>Enter your new master password, and retype it to confirm the
spelling.</li>
<li>Click OK.</li>
</ol>
<p>Make sure your new password is difficult to guess. For some guidelines, see
<a href="passwords_help.xhtml#choosing_a_good_password">Choosing a Good
Password</a>.</p>
<p>[<a href="#encrypting_stored_sensitive_information">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="logging_out_of_your_master_password">Logging Out of Your Master
Password</h2>
<p>Normally, you are asked for your master password once during each
&brandShortName; session during which you access any of your stored sensitive
information.</p>
<p>It's also possible to require that your master password be requested
each time it is needed, or after a certain amount of time has passed. For
details, see <a href="passwords_help.xhtml#master_password_timeout">Master
Password Timeout</a>.</p>
<p>You can log out of your master password so that it must be entered again
before any sensitive information can be stored or retrieved. This is useful
if you are going to leave your computer unattended for a period of time.</p>
<p>To log out of your master password:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the Tools menu and choose Password Manager.</li>
<li>Select Log Out from the submenu.</li>
</ol>
<p>[<a href="#encrypting_stored_sensitive_information">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="what_to_do_if_you_forget_your_master_password">What to Do If You Forget
Your Master Password</h2>
<p>If you forget your master password and you have chosen to encrypt sensitive
data (see <a href="#encrypting_stored_sensitive_information">Encrypting
Stored Sensitive Information</a>), you won't be able to access any of
the stored password and form data that it protects (assuming you have turned
on encryption). Your master password is your most important password. Make
sure you remember it or record it in a safe place.</p>
<p>As a last resort, it's possible to reset your master password if you
are sure you can't remember it. However, resetting your master password
permanently erases all the web passwords, email passwords, and form data
saved on your behalf by Password Manager and Form Manager. You will also lose
all your personal certificates associated with the
<a href="glossary.xhtml#software_security_device">Software Security
Device</a>.</p>
<p>Before taking this drastic step, read
<a href="passwords_help.xhtml#reset_master_password">Reset Master
Password</a>.</p>
<p>If you are sure you can't remember or retrieve your master password,
follow these instructions to reset it:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Master Passwords. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
the list.)</li>
<li>Click Reset Master Password.</li>
<li>In the Reset Master Password dialog box, click Reset.</li>
</ol>
<p>[<a href="#encrypting_stored_sensitive_information">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h1 id="managing_images">Managing Images</h1>
<p>If you wish, you can choose not to download any images when you browse the
web. This greatly restricts what you can view online, but may be helpful if
you have a slow connection and wish to shorten the time it takes web pages to
load.</p>
<p>You can also control how frequently animated images repeat their animation,
or turn off animation completely.</p>
<p>The next section describes how to control these image settings. The default
settings allow all images to be accepted and allow them to repeat their
animation.</p>
<h2 id="images">Privacy & Security Preferences - Images</h2>
<p>This section describes how to set preferences for images. To view the
preference settings for images:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Images. (If no
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
the list.)</li>
</ol>
<h3 id="image_acceptance_policy">Image Acceptance Policy</h3>
<p>Image Acceptance preferences allow you to control whether and where
Navigator displays images:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Do not load any images</strong>: Select this option if you do not
want Navigator to display images.</li>
<li><strong>Accept images that come from the originating server
only</strong>: Select this option if you do not want to load images from
third-party sites.</li>
<li><strong>Accept all images</strong>: Select this option if you want
Navigator to display all images. (This option is selected by default.)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Animated images should loop</h3>
<p>These settings control how many times animated images repeat their
animation:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>As many times as the image specifies</strong>: Select this if you
want image animation to repeat as many times as specified within each
image. (This option is selected by default.)</li>
<li><strong>Once</strong>: Select this if you want image animation to occur
once, overriding the number of times specified within each image.</li>
<li><strong>Never</strong>: Select this if you do not want image
animation.</li>
</ul>
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