480839 - Remove Passwords from Clear Private Data settings

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 472226

(Core :: Preferences: Backend, defect)

Description

[Noah (NoahSUMO/SolidSnake) [:Noah]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090226 Firefox/3.0
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Since last summer, I've wanted to remove the Passwords choice, but never spoke up because I thought it was very loved in the eyes of some devs. But I fear no longer, imo I just think that hardly any people need to clear ALL their passwords frequently enough for that choice to be listed in CPD settings, what ends up happening is some avg user checks all the boxes, finds out he deleted all his/her passwords then look to Firefox for support on recovering them.

If someone really wants to delete all their passwords, it should be thru the Options > Privacy UI - that way they realize what they are about to do. People want to save their passwords more than they want to delete them I would think.

We should of done this a long time ago. It would of saved alot of users grief over "accidentally" wiping their passwords.

Reproducible: Always