Please add an option to save passwords OUTSIDE Firefox

menych
Hi, I have an option set for firefox to clear all passwords as I exit firefox.
It is very annoying that I need to reenter two passwords to sync ZOTERO.

ZOTERO is a very handy app, but I would REALLY prefer to keep the privacy of my passwords for the websites I visit with the functionality of not having to reenter the zotero passwords every time I start my firefox...
  • dstillman
    Where would you want to have the option of storing them, exactly?
  • dstillman
    It's possible we could have an authentication option that used a (locally served) web page that let you use an external password manager...

    In the near future we may be switching to an authentication scheme that, at least for the Zotero server, didn't require any password to be stored in the client. It'd still need to store an authentication token, but if this didn't exist it would take you to a zotero.org web page where you could also use an external password manager.
  • menych
    I am not sure I completely understand your response.

    Currently, it is the problem with FF, which only allows exceptions from saving passwords, whereas they should have had an option of only saving specific passwords.

    As long as FF can't do that, it would be great if zotero allowed for an option of storing the password locally outside FF. I understand that it would severely compromise privacy, and, of course, zotero should make this warning, but I could live with that.

    Where should it store them? How about the application data folder?
  • dstillman
    It's unlikely that we'd support saving passwords in files on disk. If anything we'd make Zotero more compatible with external password managers with Firefox integration.

    I'm unclear what the actual problem is, though. Why not just disable "Remember passwords for sites" in the Firefox preferences? Firefox won't ask you to save passwords, and it won't prevent Zotero from storing passwords in the Firefox password manager.
  • menych
    REALLY? That would work? Let me try this...
  • menych
    OMG, you just made my day. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!
    Not only did this solve my problem with zotero, it also solved an even more annoying problem with another add-in.

    /me bows down to almighty Dan Stillman...
  • bdesc100
    edited June 8, 2009
    This is great, I've been looking for a way to do this too. The problem is that if the "remember passwords for sites" is disabled when zotero is first installed, the passwords are not remembered. You need to set it on, then type the passwords, restart Firefox and then turn it off again. Also, the "clear passwords" option which is part of the "Clear private data" needs to be off. Might be worthwhile to include this in the FAQ, save a lot of people the headache..
  • dstillman
    The problem is that if the "remember passwords for sites" is disabled when zotero is first installed, the passwords are not remembered.
    This is not true. Zotero saves credentials entered in the sync preferences directly to the Firefox login manager and isn't affected by that pref—at least that I've seen.

    Delete credentials, disable the pref, enter sync credentials, restart Firefox. Credentials are still there.
  • bdesc100
    OK, yes. That works. I guess it is a bit redundant to have "Remember passwords for sites" selected and to try and clear passwords when Firefox closes (it's not remembering them in the first place). Should have tested a bit more before I posted. Thanks.
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