User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1 The proprietary autocomplete attribute is a very user-hostile feature, which authors should not have the ability to control. I realise support for this attribute was added to please a few banks and other organisations that black mail browsers by saying they won't support them if the browser doesn't support the autocomplete attribute (at least, that's what Hixie has told me), but in the end, it should be the user's decision about whether or not to store the form information. Currently, the only way I've found to handle this is to install the Always Remember Password extension [1], but this ability should be a built in preference, even if it's only hidden away in about:config and not shown in the options dialog. [1] http://roachfiend.com/archives/2005/03/03/always-remember-password/ Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Visit a site that uses the autocomplete="off" attribute in a form. 2. Complete the form and submit. Actual Results: The values are not stored for later use. Expected Results: Offer to store the the the form values, as is usually done for well designed forms that don't use this awful attribute.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124065#c11 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124065 ***

There really needs to be better documentation for all these hidden prefs. That one in bug 124065 comment 11 doesn't even show up in the about:config list and the bug didn't seem to come up in any of my searches. Oh well, verifying duplicate bug.

Firefox and the Suite have two completely different Form Managers. They share the password storage back-end, but the user-facing parts of that are different between the two. ("Form Manager" probably shouldn't be a component of the "Core" product) Your UA says you're using Firefox. I'm not sure Firefox supports the pref described in bug 124065. If it does it might only for passwords and not for form inputs. Try it, and reopen the bug as necessary (or actually, search for dupes first, I'm fairly sure there's a Firefox bug or three on this already).

The pref in bug 124065 doesn't work for firefox, as I mentioned in bug 124065 comment 23. I searched the dupes, and this is what I've found. bug 145797 - For Seamonkey (Mozilla Application Sweet/Password Manager) bug 185130 - For Seamonkey bug 185770 - For Seamonkey (on Mac) bug 211884 - For Seamonkey (on Mac) bug 250831 - For Seamonkey (on Mac) bug 270321 - For Firefox (FF/Password Manager), but wanted different option to choose whether or not to save password for secure sites. Didn't seem realted to autocomplete. bug 269726 - For Firefox, but seems to want FF to not remember password which is also the opposite of this bug. As none of those bugs are appropriate, I'm reopening this bug to get it fixed in Firefox. Should the Product/Component be changed to Firefox/Password Manager also? I initially chose Core and Form manager cause I thought it was part of Gecko, not just Firefox, so please correct that if I chose incorrectly.

Changing product/component to Firefox. Meanwhile you may find the "remember password" bookmarklet useful. Drag it to your personal toolbar so it's always handy. Click on it at pages that prevent the password manager from working. http://squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html

Why does it seem as though there is no desire to get this issue fixed? The Always Remember Password extension and the Remember Password bookmarklet do not work on all sites. Three I can think of are chase.com, bankofamerica.com and phpclasses.com. These sites use javascript to remove your password in the form when you click the submit button, then pass it on to their login program through javascript. Firefox never sees there's a password to remember, so it never asks. If you disable javascript then you can't login.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 245333 ***

Although, this is techincally a duplicate of bug 245333, that one is marked as resolved WONTFIX, which is complete rubbish. This bug or that bug needs to be reopened and the issue needs to be fixed. It's incredibly annoying not being able to have passwords remembered, and I don't buy into all that nonsense about banks banning a browser based on some obscure and hidden pref. If my bank or any other site blocks me, I'll complain loudly and switch banks. As a user-agent, Firefox is supposed to be acting on behalf of the user, and not giving into the incomptent, user-hostile demands from large organisations. Please fix this.

I agree, it's ridiculous to give in to the demands of some company... what are you guys thinking? This isn't my idea of getting more sites to support firefox properly.