I get caught on this in two ways all the time. First is when I go to check my
webmail, start typing my name/password before the page is done loading, and then the
browser (annoyingly) changes the focus back to the first
textbox when it finished loading, showing at least part of my password if I'm not careful. Then I'm left with something like
Login: ivarnelissword
Password: **
This happens to me all the time in both
Internet Explorer and
Mozilla, and it's gotten worse going from broadband back to a
dial-up connection. The other way is when I'm using
Internet Explorer for
ftp. It'll let you login to an ftp server by typing a
url like: ftp://ivarneli:password@ftp.server.com. Of course, then you're typing your password in
plain view, so to be
tricky, you just type in ftp://ivarneli@ftp.server.com and a
dialog box comes up asking you for your password (and hiding it when you type it). But what happens when you press OK? You look at the
URL box at the top of the window and see your password right there! It gets even better... IE saves it in the
history, so the next person to use that computer can easily see your password and log in to your ftp server
if you're not careful and
clear the history.