233723 - Password Manager doesn't work if a website fills a username field by itself

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 229762

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Oli Kurt]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Many websites (e.g. ebay) are using a cookie to store and retrieve the username.
In these cases the password manager doesn't show up the password, because the
field isn't empty after the page load.

I (and many people I asked) think that it would be useful if the password
manager overwrites the username and password. (Did that Mozilla already, didn't it?)

By the way, I think that it is no solution to disable cookies (or to set them
"for the current session only")

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. (enable cookies) 
2. login to ebay.com, store the password in the password manager
3. close the firefox
4. try to re-login to ebay.com

Comment 1

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 229762 ***