1164528 - Add an android widget to launch about:passwords for quicker access

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Logins, Passwords and Form Fill, enhancement)

Description

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

To give users quicker access to their passwords we could implement a widget with a button to open about:passwords.

Comment 1

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

"Quick" might be a relative term -- there'll be a 2-10 second wait for Gecko to initialize unless they used the browser recently.

Might be better to take a dependency on Bug 946857 and build a real Java UI for this.

Comment 2

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

(In reply to Richard Newman [:rnewman] from comment #1)
> "Quick" might be a relative term -- there'll be a 2-10 second wait for Gecko
> to initialize unless they used the browser recently.

Yeah, I'm aware of startup time. How about "less taps".

> Might be better to take a dependency on Bug 946857 and build a real Java UI
> for this.

On the mailing list I was suggesting we could do this as a first step before a separate app as that seems like it could be a ways out unless the recent performance issues of about:passwords ends up driving that sooner.

Comment 3

[:Margaret Leibovic]

As a workaround, users can probably add about:logins as a homescreen shortcut.

Comment 4

[Barbara Bermes [:barbara] - NI please!]

I assume/find not so much of a priority even for v2. 

Something we could always add if we see the passwords manager being used more frequently

Comment 5

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Widget is removed in 58+