<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">On Apr 11, 2014, at 11:47 AM, Eric Beversluis <<a href="mailto:ebever@researchintegration.org">ebever@researchintegration.org</a>> wrote:<br><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">If I delete my entire history from Firefox, Amazon still knows my name<br>and saved password when I go to <a href="http://amazon.com">amazon.com</a> and click to sign into my<br>account.<br><br>How does it do that if I've deleted my entire history? Do they somehow<br>know the MAC address of the box I'm using? But if I open Chrome, from<br>which I've never signed into Amazon, it doesn't already have my name and<br>saved password.<br></blockquote></div><br><div>Firefox also maintains saved passwords (and asks you if you want to save them when you type them in.)</div><div><br></div><div>Check Preferences → Security → Saved Passwords.</div><div><br></div><div>If this is the case, Amazon probably <i>doesn’t</i> know your name and saved password, until you’ve submitted the form.</div><div><br></div></body></html>