Well that is OK then. No sooner has Mozilla updated Firefox to 3.0.2 and broken my saved passwords so they cannot be accessed, nor can I create new ones, than it announces it is 'working real hard' to get Firefox 3.0.3 out to fix the mess.

"As announced, and earlier than expected, a quick Firefox update has been released to fix a single bug that prevented some users accessing their saved passwords..."

Better delete your passwords from Firefox's Password Manager before next week's Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. That's when Jeremiah Grossman will present a demo showcasing how Javascript can be used to collect passwords from Firefox.

Somebody recently wrote in asking how to backup the list of saved passwords in Firefox into a spreadsheet, so I'm writing the solution here for everybody: All you need is the Password Exporter extension.

According to a message posted over the weekend on the Full-Disclosure mailing list, the latest version of Firefox, 2.0.0.5, contains a password management vulnerability that can allow malicious Web sites to steal user passwords. If you have JavaScript enabled and allow Firefox to remember your passwords, you are at risk from this flaw.

This article explains how to move a full profile (addons, themes, cookies, browsing history, passwords and so on) from Firefox 3.0.x to Firefox 3.1.x beta or any other version, but it also works for synchronizing Firefox on 2 different computers or backing up a full profile of Firefox.

"You know that sick feeling you get in the pit of your stomach, the one that means either you forgot your mother’s birthday or even worse - your password for your favorite web site. Thankfully if Firefox has been remembering these passwords for you, recovering them in an easy task..."

Mozilla yesterday said that its planned overhaul of Firefox's interface will be pushed back to Firefox 4.0, the major release now slated to ship before the end of 2010.

Mozilla today released Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 2, which you can download from Mozilla's Web site. Release Candidate 2 is the first version of Firefox 3.5 that average users might want to run, since it's faster and more stable than the beta versions were. Firefox 3.5 boasts a number of significant changes.