283662 - saved logins do not automatically authenticate as pages load

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Jesse Argon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Firefox/1.0.1

Websites with logins do not automatically log on when a page is loaded when
Firefox is started. For example, sites such as the New York Times
(http://www.nytimes.com) and Slashdot (http://slashdot.org) with free logins
will load, but the login will not authenticate. Password manager will fill in
the user name and password, but the user has to click login to send the login
request. On sites necessitating passwords to access, the user is forced to login
before the sites will grant access (including the Wall St. Journal site
http://online.wsj.com/home/us). 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com)
2. Login using free registration
3. When prompted, save using Password Manager
4. Quit Firefox. Restart.
5. Go to NY Times site

Actual Results:  
Website loads, but login is not submitted. This means that when the user
attempts to open a story, they are prompted for their login. The password
manager fills in the username and password, but the user still must submit the
form. 

Expected Results:  
The site should have loaded already logged on under the saved username. 

The bug does not occur using Firefox in MS Windows XP, nor does it occur using
Mozilla on OS X. It has occured thus far on Macs in every version of Firefox
I've run on OS X.

Comment 1

[Aaron Leventhal]

Does this have anything to do with users with disabilities, such as users with
visual or physical impairments?

Comment 2

[Jesse Argon]

When I entered the bug it was listed under Password Manager, not Disability
Access. I must have inadvertently changed the component. It was intended to fall
under Password Manager. Can someone sufficiently empowered reassign it?

Sorry for the inconvenience. 

Comment 3

[Kevin Brosnan]

Is this a dupe of Bug 221634 [pwd-mngr] password manager needs to fill in forms
before the page finishes loading?

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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