And others have pointed out how easy it is to have one common username/password to be used at a bunch of web sites where your security is not critical. That is, no financial or private data associated with the login. I generally use the same User ID at every single web site I register at, so I only have to keep track of passwords. And Mozilla does that for me very nicely. It's not even hard to port memorized passwords from one Mozilla to another on another machine. (Although that requires knowing where a configuration file is and manually cutting and pasting some information to another file.)

For long term memory of passwords, I use my Pa1m with some wonderful software: SplashId. Yes, it means spending a little bit of time to keep track of that stuff, but I only need to reference it on rare occasion. Usually only when I am logging into a site for the very first time from a browser on a new machine.

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