On Linux Chrome (or just Chromium?) can use your system keyring to store passwords in a fairly secure manner. Now if only a) Firefox did that, too, and b) they

On Linux Chrome (or just Chromium?) can use your system keyring to store passwords in a fairly secure manner. Now if only a) Firefox did that, too, and b) they could agree on a common standard so that you could share passwords between browsers. See e.g. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxPasswordStorage http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxPasswordStorage