User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 (Beta/Release) Build ID: 20131202182626 Steps to reproduce: Because Firefox doesn't trigger events when it autofills a password, frameworks that depend on this to update databinding don't update the databound objects. This seems to be a well-known issue, and common across all databinding frameworks. Actual results: The textbox autofills, but the framework cannot detect this, and so it never picks up the change. Expected results: Firefox should trigger the "this textbox changed" JS event, thus allowing the framework to detect the change. See this bug on Angular where they are trying to work around this: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/1460

Seconded. This really is very very annoying. Refer to this thread for more discussion on the topic: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/1460

Agree, this really is annoying. And Chrome doesn't have this issue, so Firefox should fix this.

This is not just firefox's problem. Chrome has the same problem. To know the reasons, head to the issue thread on Github.

By the way, the Platform field should not read "x86_64 Windows 7" as it is a core browser bug. As a fact, my Firefox on Ubuntu (all versions since ~20, as that is when I wrote some code which made the bug apparent) have been affected by this bug.

I'm marking all versions as affected based on comment 4 but, given that this is an issue that has been in the browser for quite some time, I am not tracking for beta.

Follow the github issue https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/1460#issuecomment-15781502 It seem to "regular autofill" and "password autofill" is different behavior. In my previous post, I test Chrome 35 for Linux, "password autofill" not have this problem, not sure "regular autofill". But Firefox fail in "password autofill".

I've also reported this 6 years ago: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430931 The response from dolske@mozilla.com was marking it as INVALID and saying that "Events shouldn't fire fire when JS modifies node values."

Is this issue still reproducing on latest Firefox builds?

Issue still present in 49.0.1 and React. The fact that this bug is still unconfirmed/needinfo after 3 years is beyond me. It's a major problem.

What this bug needs to move forward is for someone to list the relevant DOM events that Chrome fires and indicates which ones Firefox doesn't fire. i.e. we need to know what event Angular, web developers, and hopefully the HTML spec expect to be fired in this case. IIRC we have a helper to fire some events upon filling but maybe pwmgr isn't using it.

(In reply to Matthew N. [:MattN] (away until Oct. 4) from comment #11) > IIRC we have a helper to fire some events upon filling but maybe pwmgr isn't > using it. setUserInput[1] is what I was thinking about and pwmgr is already using it[2] so the fix may be to setUserInput. According to a quick skim of setUserInput, we should be firing[3] at least the "input" and "change" events already. [1] https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c7d62e6d052c5d2638b08d480a720254ea09ff2d/dom/webidl/HTMLInputElement.webidl#200 [2] https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c7d62e6d052c5d2638b08d480a720254ea09ff2d/toolkit/components/passwordmgr/LoginManagerContent.jsm#1108,1112 [3] https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c7d62e6d052c5d2638b08d480a720254ea09ff2d/dom/html/HTMLInputElement.cpp#2744,2765,2771

Someone should also clarify if the problem is with password autofill or only autocomplete (e.g. on non-login fields). Attaching a testcase would help with that.

Isn't this a dupe for bug #87943?

Yup, it's a dupe of that bug.

(In reply to Alexandre Folle de Menezes from comment #14) > Isn't this a dupe for bug #87943? No, that bug pre-dates the current Form Autofill feature in Firefox and we do fire `change` events (along with `input`).