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<blockquote data-quote="Wave" data-source="post: 592499">This won&#039;t really make your logins safer at all, but just reduces the chances of staying safe (even though you&#039;ll be safe and the chances of someone hacking you might seem slim, it still causes a chance reduction).Since if a program/extension has access to your passwords, it means someone else can gain access to them too - maybe you will leave your system on and someone else will gain access in the time that you&#039;re away, or you will become infected with a Trojan backdoor and the attacker will see the passwords on the application storing the passwords for you.However, it&#039;s good to improve management skills and to help push you to use different and more complex passwords for each individual website you sign up too, which does in turn outweigh the negatives IMO (since if you get hacked on one account from a network, let&#039;s say they have a network breach, then it won&#039;t affect other sites you use).Speaking of this one, use HTTPSEverywhere if it&#039;s supported by your browser. When you use HTTPS, the information transmitted from the browser client to the server is actually encrypted, meaning if you ever use public WiFi networks or someone in your house/a stranger with access to your WiFi attempts to sniff the network, they won&#039;t be able to filter out the login credentials you&#039;ve typed into for your sign-in attempts. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite110" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wave, post: 592499"] This won't really make your logins safer at all, but just reduces the chances of staying safe (even though you'll be safe and the chances of someone hacking you might seem slim, it still causes a chance reduction). Since if a program/extension has access to your passwords, it means someone else can gain access to them too - maybe you will leave your system on and someone else will gain access in the time that you're away, or you will become infected with a Trojan backdoor and the attacker will see the passwords on the application storing the passwords for you. However, it's good to improve management skills and to help push you to use different and more complex passwords for each individual website you sign up too, which does in turn outweigh the negatives IMO (since if you get hacked on one account from a network, let's say they have a network breach, then it won't affect other sites you use). Speaking of this one, use HTTPSEverywhere if it's supported by your browser. When you use HTTPS, the information transmitted from the browser client to the server is actually encrypted, meaning if you ever use public WiFi networks or someone in your house/a stranger with access to your WiFi attempts to sniff the network, they won't be able to filter out the login credentials you've typed into for your sign-in attempts. ;) [/QUOTE]

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