Closed Bug 259441 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Password Manager not prompting to save password

Categories

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

x86
Windows 2000
defect
Not set
major

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 249035

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(Reporter: rvs473, Assigned: bryner)

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10 In the avove mentioned page, once the login name and password are entered and "login" button is clicked, the password manager should prompt to save the password. But this does not work in Firefox 0.10. This used to work in Firefox 0.9.3 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open the above mentioned URL 2.Enter your login and password 3.Click on Login button Actual Results: The page loads showing my inbox Expected Results: Before showing my inbox page, it should have prompted to save the password. I created a new profile and tested this. It,still, doesnt work.
GMail added the autocomplete="off" attribute to the password field, which we respect. If you encrypt your passwords (not the default in Mozilla, but is in Firefox) you could go to about:config and set the wallet.crypto.autocompleteoverride pref to true and then Mozilla will ignore the autocomplete attribute.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
(In reply to comment #1) > GMail added the autocomplete="off" attribute to the password field, which we > respect. If you encrypt your passwords (not the default in Mozilla, but is in > Firefox) you could go to about:config and set the > wallet.crypto.autocompleteoverride pref to true and then Mozilla will ignore the > autocomplete attribute. I am unable to find the wallter.crypto.autocompleteoverride pref in about:config. Please confirm.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
(In reply to comment #1) > GMail added the autocomplete="off" attribute to the password field, which we > respect. If you encrypt your passwords (not the default in Mozilla, but is in > Firefox) you could go to about:config and set the > wallet.crypto.autocompleteoverride pref to true and then Mozilla will ignore the > autocomplete attribute. I am unable to find the wallet.crypto.autocompleteoverride pref in about:config. Please confirm.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
(In reply to comment #1) > GMail added the autocomplete="off" attribute to the password field, which we > respect. If you encrypt your passwords (not the default in Mozilla, but is in > Firefox) you could go to about:config and set the > wallet.crypto.autocompleteoverride pref to true and then Mozilla will ignore the > autocomplete attribute. After adding the profile and restarting Firefox, I navigated to gmail page and logged in. The password manager did not prompt to save the password. Please confirm.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
Oh, *firefox*. That's a completely different password manager implementation. I'll reassign. The bug as written is invalid. Google uses autocomplete="off", we respect that. http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/toolkit/components/passwordmgr/base/nsPasswordManager.cpp#1052 If you want to change this bug to a feature request like "Firefox needs a way to override autocomplete=off like Mozilla" then maybe that'd be OK. But I'm sure Firefox wouldn't use wallet. prefs. Of you could just get the "remember password" bookmarklet from www.squarfree.com (note: you need to open the login frame in its own window for that to work on gmail).
Assignee: dveditz → bryner
Product: Browser → Firefox
QA Contact: davidpjames
Summary: Password Manager not prompting to save password → Firefox needs a way to override autocomplete=off like Mozilla
See bug 227640 comment 3 for one example of why we honor autocomplete *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 249035 *** *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 249035 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Summary: Firefox needs a way to override autocomplete=off like Mozilla → Password Manager not prompting to save password
Bug #271039 has been opened as a feature request for "wallet.crypto.autocompleteoverride" support in Firefox. Please be sure to vote for it.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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