Open Bug 357258 Opened 18 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Prevent websites from influencing font of password controls

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout: Form Controls
Version:
1.8 Branch
Type:
defect

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People

(Reporter: caillon, Unassigned)

Details

Some rationale is presented in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97811#c59 through 62.

The general idea is that changing fonts can make things "feel" less like a password control to the user.  Since we already are restricting these to a single character, restricting the font makes sense.
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: PC → All
So what aspects of the font would we want to prevent from changing?  The size?  The family?  We were talking about the family in bug 97811, right?

A second problem is what font face do we force, exactly?  Should it be different on different OSes?
Severity: normal → S3
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