Firefox 'ruined my five-year relationship'

A woman scorned has attacked Mozilla developers for failing to patch a 'security bug' in Firefox that revealed her partner-to-be was snooping adult websites.



In an online posting, the unknown female said a 'privacy flaw' in the browser's Password Manager is responsible for ending her five-year relationship and pending engagement.



Her discovery came when the IE7 user logged onto her separate XP account and decided to switch to Firefox, wooed by its tales of greater speed and stability.



Clicking Options, Privacy and then the tab 'never save password,' she claims a list of URLs dropped down, listing dating services and swinger sites that she "could never dream of visiting."



"This privacy flaw has caused my fiancé and I to break-up after having dated for 5 years.



"Of course, those were sites I had never visited or could ever dream of visiting. Then I realized who, how and what... and sh*t hit the fan," the woman wrote on Bugzilla.mozilla.org.



The offending Password list included sites such as swinglifestyle.com and adultfriendfinder.com, prompting the woman to dump the suspected love cheat.



"Your browser does not efficiently respect the privacy of different users for one system," she blasted at Mozilla.



Declaring her anger and experience online prompted a hearty debate.



More technically astute Firefox users told her the issue with the browser was more a 'feature', rather than a privacy flaw or security bug.



But defending her corner, others disagreed, "She's 100% correct," Nullmail wrote in a reply.



"I went to my Windows 2000 Pro machine and… there were a list of sites that I did not want passwords saved for. I then chose 'clear private data' and went back into the Password Manager. The list was still there.



"Lastly, I created a new user account, went into Password Manager; guess what…the list was still there. Not only is the list not cleared with private data, it is also shared between user accounts on the same machine."



To put an end to the debate, Mozilla developers issued a statement, "When different users on one system choose to save or not save passwords for sites, any other user can see sites they not only saved passwords for but can also see what other users have been saving/never saving passwords for."



Meanwhile bulletin boarders continued to offer advice to the woman. One hinted she was too hasty in leaving her fiancé for what he said sounded like a "thought crime."



Another asked her, "Are people who watch the Sopranos mob-style criminals? Are people who watch SpongeBob interested in living in a pineapple under the sea? Are women who watch Sex In The City as horny as the ones on the show?"



Finally RedSaber claimed to have developed a workaround, "I think the only solution for now is very simple: Never share your computer with your girlfriend."