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Mozilla Firefox can now secure access to passwords with device credentials

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mozilla-firefox-can-now-secure-access-to-passwords-with-device-credentials/

Mozilla Firefox finally allows you to further protect local access to stored credentials in the browser's password manager using your device's login, including a password, fingerprint, pin, or other biometrics

3 comments

chris

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This is a welcome change, but took waaay too long. I switched to Bitwarden a long time ago and have no plans on changing now.

criitz

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Same, but honestly using a separate tool than your browser is the way to go anyway.

CosmicTurtle0

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It's about damn time. I hope this is true across all OSs. Dashlane is one of the biggest holdouts on supporting YubiKey on Firefox Linux because Firefox didn't support biometrics.

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