I get annoyed at some companies’ misguided attempts at password security. Take SalesForce.com, for instance (please!).

SalesForce is a web-based customer relationship management system. It holds a lot of sensitive corporate data and rightly should be protected from unauthorized access. While we SalesForce customers are expected to trust SalesForce with we consider sensitive data, SalesForce does not trust us with what itconsiders sensitive data, namely one’s own SalesForce password. SalesForce deliberately disables the ability of Firefox and other webbrowers to automatically save your SalesForce password and automatically re-enter it when you return to the login page.
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