Keychain and web site passwords

Can someone explain how to use Keychain to store web site passwords? I've searched on the forums, read the help, and asked at the Apple Store. Or am I mistaken as to the purpose of Keychain? Is it only to store email access passwords? The Apple Store employee told me that when I login to a site and Safari asks me if I want it to save the password info, I just need to answer yes. But it seems to me that anyone can access the Safari passwords. Or am I confused? Do the Safari passwords automatically get encrypted into Keychain?
When using Windows I use Roboform to securely store passwords. When I choose a login account, Roboform automatically navigates to the site and enters my password information. I would like the same ease of use on my Mac. I thought Keychain might be the way to do it.
Can someone clarify things for me? Or perhaps suggest a Roboform equivalent? Thank you.

Personally, I just have one keychain. Its contents are stored here:
"/Users/francine/Library/Keychains/login.keychain"
When I go to a web site that requires me to create an account, with a login and a password, I do so. When I log in Safari asks if I want to allow it remember the password. I say Yes. From then on when I go to the log in page of that web site Safari automatically fills in the log in information, so I just have to click the button to log in. Some sites have an option you can check that makes it completely automatic--you go there and you are logged. In Safari's Preferences you have to go the AutoFill section and check the box to have it autofill "User names and passwords" for it to fill the forms in, and for the fully automatic you have to have "Accept cookes" enabled in Security.
If I open my login.keychain I can see all the items it is storing--there are a couple of dozen, including some ftp passwords, Airpost passwords, application passwords, iTunes, and the 20+ web site passwords.
Even if you leave yourself logged in to your account no one can read your passwords--unless they know your admin password. They could, of course, go to your password protected sites and automatically login. But they wouldn't learn your passwords.
Once in a blue moon Safari or the keychain has a memory failure and I'll be asked if the application can have access to the keychain. I click the button for "Always Allow" and I'm back in business.
Francine
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