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Using html classes, ids and other identification methods I'd think it would be fairly easy to set up intelligent filtering that differentiates between different types of input fields. Discriminating between input and textarea probably gets you already 90% of the way.


+ Ignore forms with a password field


And hope nobody trojans the Firefox extension you're using to handle passwords "specially".


All Firefox extensions can read the passwords if they're trojaned, regardless of whether they handle them or not.


Oh, no, I just meant that most forms with a password field are either log on or sign up forms, which I wouldn't want to bother with preserving locally.




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