Firefox/Mozilla/SeaMonkey/Flock/Netscape/Advanced - Revision history

Tanstaafl at 14:57, 26 February 2009

2009-02-26T14:57:58Z

Tanstaafl at 14:57, 26 February 2009

2009-02-26T14:57:22Z

Tanstaafl at 14:56, 26 February 2009

2009-02-26T14:56:51Z

Tanstaafl at 14:56, 26 February 2009

2009-02-26T14:56:01Z

Tanstaafl at 14:55, 26 February 2009

2009-02-26T14:55:34Z

Tanstaafl: /* Advanced Auto-Populate Tab */

2009-02-26T13:01:34Z

Advanced Auto-Populate Tab

Tanstaafl: /* Extended Tab */

2009-02-26T12:57:48Z

Extended Tab

Tanstaafl: /* Account Settings */

2009-02-26T12:41:01Z

Account Settings

141.162.101.50: Reformatted & reworded

2008-08-13T22:43:25Z

Reformatted & reworded

141.162.101.50: Added todo's and italics

2008-08-13T22:19:21Z

Added todo's and italics

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 Once you have entered the Field Value and set the Field Type option, you must remember to click the 'Add' button, or it will not save the field/value.
-===Context Menu===
+==Context Menu==
-===Menu===
+==Menu==

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 Password Details simply shows the relative strength of the password (this algorithm could use some work), and displays the Generated Password - unless you have enabled the 'Mask Generated Passwords with Asterisks' Global Setting.
-====Advanced Auto-Populate Tab====
+==Advanced Options: Advanced Auto-Populate Tab==
 *1. Field Name - blah blah

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 Of course, you can always ask for regular expression advice in the the [http://forums.passwordmaker.org PasswordMaker Forums].
-====Extended Tab====
+==Advanced Options: Extended Tab==
 *1. Username - blah blah

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	With the myriad possibilities for required subdomains, PasswordMaker can't account for them all. It includes some common ones -- the list of which grows from release to release (the ''default'' list). However, you are free to add/remove your own using the '''Special Domains Dialog'''. Your customizations to the special domains list are exported when using the '''Export Preferences''' feature, and imported when using the '''Import Preferences''' feature (providing the file being imported contains special domains). In this way, you can easily transfer customized lists to other PasswordMaker installations.		With the myriad possibilities for required subdomains, PasswordMaker can't account for them all. It includes some common ones -- the list of which grows from release to release (the ''default'' list). However, you are free to add/remove your own using the '''Special Domains Dialog'''. Your customizations to the special domains list are exported when using the '''Export Preferences''' feature, and imported when using the '''Import Preferences''' feature (providing the file being imported contains special domains). In this way, you can easily transfer customized lists to other PasswordMaker installations.

−	~~===Account Settings===~~

	==Advanced Options: URLs Tab==		==Advanced Options: URLs Tab==

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 ::4. ''Clear all fields,'' which means all the fields on the web page will be cleared
-==Upload / Download Tab==
+==Advanced Options: Upload / Download Tab==
-==Special Domains Tab==
+==Advanced Options: Special Domains Tab==
 [[Image:button.jpg|l33t]]<br>
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 ===Account Settings===
-====URLs Tab====
+==Advanced Options: URLs Tab==
 PasswordMaker uses what are called URL patterns to detect when you are on a page for a particular account that you have specified.

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 PasswordMaker uses what are called URL patterns to detect when you are on a page for a particular account that you have specified.
-It is important that the pattern(s) you define are both secure, and specific enough to avoid false positives and prevent phishing attacks.
+'''<SPAN style="color: red;">Important</SPAN>''': The pattern(s) you define should be secure and specific enough to avoid false positives and prevent phishing attacks.
-There are two types of patterns that PasswordMaker supports: '''wildcards''' and '''regular expressions'''.
+PasswordMaker supports two types of patterns: ''wildcard'' and ''regular expression''.
-'''Wildcards'''
+=====Wildcard Patterns=====
-''Wildcards'' are pervasive throughout computing; you've most likely seen them before. The '''asterisk''' (*) substitutes as a ''wildcard'' character for zero or more characters, and the '''question mark''' (?) substitutes as a ''wildcard'' character for any ''single'' character. In Unix, this is referred to as glob expansion.<br><br>
+''Wildcards'' are pervasive throughout computing; you've most likely seen them before. The asterisk (<TT>*</TT>) represents zero or more characters and the question mark (<TT>?</TT>) any ''single'' character in the URL to match. In Unix, this is referred to as globbing. These wildcard characters are often used for matching filenames.<br>
-'''Wildcard Examples'''<br><br>
+Here are some examples:
-<u>'''URL Pattern:''' *.yahoo.com/*</u>
+<PRE>*.yahoo.com/*</PRE>
 <table><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="345">
-'''Some Matches'''
+'''Matches'''
 Everything in Yahoo's domain
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 <td valign="top">
-'''Some Non-Matches'''
+'''Non-Matches'''
 http://mail.google.com/
-</td></tr></table><br>
+</td></tr></table>
-<u>'''URL Pattern:''' *mail.yahoo.com*</u>
+<PRE>*mail.yahoo.com*</PRE>
 <table><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="345">
-'''Some Matches'''
+'''Matches'''
 http://mail.yahoo.com/
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 <td valign="top">
-'''Some Non-Matches'''
+'''Non-Matches'''
 http://maps.yahoo.com
-</td></tr></table><br>
+</td></tr></table>
-<u>'''URL Pattern:''' http://??.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown</u>
+<PRE>http://??.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown</PRE>
 <table><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="345">
-'''Some Matches'''
+'''Matches'''
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown
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 <td valign="top">
-'''Some Non-Matches'''
+'''Non-Matches'''
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown<br>
 http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown/<br>
 ftp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown<br>
-</td></tr></table><br>
+</td></tr></table>
-<u>'''URL Pattern:''' http://digg.com/</u>
+<PRE>http://digg.com/</PRE>
 <table><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="345">
-'''Some Matches'''
+'''Matches'''
 http://digg.com/
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 <td valign="top">
-'''Some Non-Matches'''
+'''Non-Matches'''
 http://digg.com<br>
 http://www.digg.com/
-</td></tr></table><br>
+</td></tr></table>
-<u>'''URL Pattern:''' *://*.asimov.???/*</u>
+<PRE>*://*.asimov.???/*</PRE>
 <table><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="345">
-'''Some Matches'''
+'''Matches'''
 ftp://ftp.asimov.net/<br>
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 <td valign="top">
-'''Some Non-Matches'''
+'''Non-Matches'''
 ftp://ftp.asimov.co.uk<br>
 http://isaac.home.com/tin.php
-</td></tr></table><br>
+</td></tr></table>
-<u>'''URL Pattern:''' *</u>
+<PRE>*</PRE>
 <table><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="345">
-'''Some Matches'''
+'''Matches'''
-Matches everything
+(Matches everything)
 </td>
 <td valign="top">
-'''Some Non-Matches'''
+'''Non-Matches'''
-</td></tr></table><br>
+</td></tr></table>
-−
-'''Regular Expressions'''
+=====Regular Expression Patterns=====
 ''Regular expressions'' are also pervasive throughout computing, although they are sometimes considered an advanced topic. Regular expressions are like "wildcards on steroids" because they are more powerful and flexible, but their goal is similar to wildcards: define a means with which to match arbitrary text.

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 *2. '''Hide Master Password Field (number of asterisks)''' This option causes the master password box to be completely concealed, thereby disabling the casual observer to determine the password length by counting asterisks
 *3. Confirm ''master password'' by typing it twice -
-*4. Show all passwords on web pages as cleartext -
+*4. Show all passwords on web pages as clear text -
-*5. Enable auto-complete on pages that disable it -
+*5. Enable auto-complete on pages that disable it - (todo: describe why this is valuable)
-*6. Auto-clear clipbord ''n'' seconds after copying it there - this security feature prevents you from having to remember to clear the clipboard of generated passwords. If checked, the clipboard is automatically cleared ''n'' seconds after pressing the Copy to Clipboard button, where ''n'' is the value entered in the associated input field. However, before clearing the clipboard, PasswordMaker checks that nothing else has been copied there since the generated password. If something has been copied there since then, the clipboard contents are not cleared. This prevents other data in the clipboard from being overwritten
+*6. Auto-clear clipboard ''n'' seconds after copying it there - this security feature prevents you from having to remember to clear the clipboard of generated passwords. If checked, the clipboard is automatically cleared ''n'' seconds after pressing the Copy to Clipboard button, where ''n'' is the value entered in the associated input field. However, before clearing the clipboard, PasswordMaker checks that nothing else has been copied there since the generated password. If something has been copied there since then, the clipboard contents are not cleared. This prevents other data in the clipboard from being overwritten
 *7. Show status-bar indicator -
 *8. Action to take when coolkey (or ALT-`) is activated - the four options are:<br>
 [[Image:Coolkey_actions.png|Coolkey Actions]]<br>
-::1. ''Do nothing'', which means ... ''do nothing''
+::1. ''Do nothing,'' which means ... do nothing
-::2. Populate all fields, which means that all fields will be populated
+::2. ''Populate all fields,'' which means that all fields will be populated (todo: clearly PasswordMaker doesn't populate '''all''' fields, so describe this better)
-::3. Populate empty fields only, which means that only empty password fields will be populated
+::3. ''Populate empty fields only,'' which means that only empty password fields will be populated
-::4. Clear all fields, which means all the fields on the web page will be cleared
+::4. ''Clear all fields,'' which means all the fields on the web page will be cleared
 ==Upload / Download Tab==