Closed Bug 352239 Opened 18 years ago Closed 18 years ago

Password manager overwrites password without prompting

Categories

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

1.8 Branch
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 221634

People

(Reporter: webmaster, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6 When entering a different password for a previously saved username, there's no prompt to overwrite/remember the new password. In my case, I thought I knew the password and typed it in before the autofill. I was wrong, and the old password's gone. :D Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Save a password. 2. Re-log, and put in a different password like a moron. 3. Observe the incorrect password now saved by the pw manager. Expected Results: Prompt with the original "Remember password?" dialog, or better yet create a new "Overwrite previous password?" dialog.
This is basically fixed by bug 221634 which prevents this scenario from happening by filling in the password form as early as possible. With that bug fixed, the cases where you'd see this bug are few and far between. Why would a user see a password and username field filled in and decide to change it instead of just hitting submit? Not very often. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 221634 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
OS: Windows XP → All
Hardware: PC → All
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Version: unspecified → 2.0 Branch
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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