Most likely the stars and asterisks difference is because your 2 desktops are using different themes.
(Or one of the desktops uses a modified theme by the same name)

OT it annoys me that Ubuntu brands their symbol in Konqueror's busy icon, etc...

HTH,
Pariksheet

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Norberto Bensa <nbensa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> here's a cosmetic one.
>
> I use Firefox (3b5) on KDE (3.5.9) Password fields appear -in both versions- as asterisks "*****"
>
> Using Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) I've noticed Firefox uses circles in password fields. Is that an Ubuntu patch or some obscure configuration option?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Norberto