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A security flaw in Firefox recently caused the breakup of a woman and her fiancé.

She discovered he’d been visiting numerous dating sites when she opened up a list of sites whose passwords were never saved on the shared machine.

Now discussions have erupted on tech blogs about uninstallers, profile data, and other boring technical vagaries. But the take-home lesson is this: Firefox ruins your life.

Or maybe the lesson is, as one person suggested: Never share your computer with your girlfriend.

"This privacy flaw has caused my fiancé and I to break-up after having dated for 5 years," the woman wrote on the Bugzilla discussion list.

"I went into the Password Manager to change the saved password option from Never to Always and that’s when I saw all these other sites that had been selected as "Never Save Password." Of course, those were sites I had never visited or could ever dream of visiting. Then I realized who, how and what… and sh*t hit the fan."

The fiancé had visited sites such as JDate, SwingLifeStyle, and Adult FriendFinder.

In a related story, overly stringent security in Firefox’s email client, Thunderbird, caused another man’s girlfriend to break up with him.

The girlfriend went to Costa Rica and couldn’t get in touch with him by phone. "Unfortunately, she emailed me first, and the email was binned by Thunderbird’s mail filter," he wrote to a reporter at the Register.

"When she didn’t receive a reply, she mailed me again… and again. I’m sure the rest will be obvious."

via sploid.