368318 - Option to let typed passwords be visible

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 502258

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[iylan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

I want to request an option to let passwords be visible (rather than showing *******) while typing them. This would help poor typists who do not need the security of password masking. A status bar icon can be used as a warning/reminder, as well as a way to quickly re-enable masking when desired.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

There is an extension for this at AMO: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/462/

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs that are in the Firefox General component, are UNCO, and have not been changed for 1000 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10, create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you still see the bug, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the resolution to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 3

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

This is still needed, as of FF6, and the various addons cannot emulate it completely.