79527 - Login Name and Username are saved as Concatenated Name

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[Steve Chapel]

Reproducability: always

Steps to reproduce:
1. Go to the above URL.
2. Click on "login here".
3. Enter "allen" as the Login Name.
4. Enter "allen" as the Password.
5. Select Edit|Save Form Data.
6. Select Edit|View Saved Data|Other Saved Information|Concatenations.

Expected result: The login name or username is stored as my login name.
Actual result: The login name or username is stored as my real name.

When the text before the field is "Username", the same problem happens as with
"Login Name". This is basically the same as bug 61275, where the e-mail address
was saved as my living address. I guess the most appropriate place to store the
data is in the URL-specific data, since my Username/Login Name varies from
website to website. I've seen this problem with the past several month's builds,
up to and including 20010508, on Windows and Mac.

Comment 1

[Stephen P. Morse]

This looks like a misuse of form manager when password manage was intended.  
This particular page contains a username/password.  At the time you submit that 
form, you will be asked if you want to save that login.  Answer yes, and 
password manager will save those values for this particular site.  They will not 
be reused for any  other site.  And they can be viewed using the 
password-manager dialog.

Form manager, on the other hand, is useful for saving values on one form that 
can be reused on another form.  It is the thing you get when you do 
edit->save-form-data.  You should not be doing that for this particular page.

Comment 2

[Terri Preston]

Verified invalid

Comment 3

[Steve Chapel]

I have several problems with the response that I should use the Password Manager
instead of the Form Manager:

1. Storing the username/login name as the concatenated name when I select Save
Form Data violates the principle of least astonishment.

2. The Password Manager saves the username and password. What if I want to save
only the username and not the password?

3. The Password Manager automatically pops up when I visit a page that has saved
data. After using the Password Manager on MozillaZine twice, I now get a dialog
box whenever I read any MozillaZine article. This is very irritating. If I had
used the Form Manager instead, this popup wouldn't be appearing.

4. The Password Manager does not save data for some pages that I visit. With the
Form Manager, I can always elect to Save Form Data whenever I want.

The bottom line is that sometimes I want to use the Form Manager and sometimes I
want to use the Password Manager. Why can't I choose which one to use?

Comment 4

[Stephen P. Morse]

> 3. The Password Manager automatically pops up when I visit a page that
> has saved data.

If that's happening, it's because you saved two different usernames for that 
same page.  You can rectify that by going to the password-manager dialog and 
removing the one that you don't want.  If you have only one username saved, it 
will silently be prefilled for you when you return to that page.

Comment 5

[Steve Chapel]

Actually, the Password Manager has saved the subjects of my MozillaZine posts as
my Username. I'll report this as a separate bug.

Comment 6

[Stephen P. Morse]

Don't bother filing it as a bug -- it's a feature.  By desing, the first 
non-password field is interpreted as the username by the password manager.

Comment 7

[Steve Chapel]

Yes, this is the problem! If I use the Password Manager, the subject is saved as
the username. If I use the Form Manager, the username is saved as my name.

This is why I want to sometimes use the Form Manager instead of the Password
Manager, and why I want the username to be saved separately from my name. This
change would fix most of my form problems.