Comment 35 for bug 41179

Thanks for all the feedback. I'll keep an eye on performance problems. About the screen repaint issue, I just got prompted to allow access to the keyring and Firefox had no problem repainting in the background.

I was personally motivated to fix get the gnome-keyring integration out there because I wanted to reduce the number of unencrypted passwords on my drive. Since that's my main goal, I don't mind if this feature lives as an extension or as part of the standard packaging as long as I can use it =).

As for the relative value of the keyring integration, it's all about security (although something like your suggestion would have worked as well). The argument that "that most users won't care" should really be re-phrased to say "that most users won't care, until they sell their machine and the buyer uses their passwords left on disk". Leveraging something like gnome-keyring to get the password encryption for free seemed like a easy win for me (and Sylvain had done most of the work already).