1038886 - Onboarding/First launch is awkward if you forgot your Firefox Account password

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Benjamin Podszun]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140714004001

Steps to reproduce:

1. Flashed a b2g build from git master
2. Booted the device for the first time
3. Completed the onboarding steps, until the Fx Account comes up
4. Noticed that .. I probably don't know my password anymore


Actual results:

There's a link that says 'Forgot password', but it just opens a tiny tooltip (or toast or whatchacallit) that says 'Please reset your password from the settings'.
It .. doesn't allow me to reset my password.

At this point I'm stuck for now: Next is not working (I don't know my password, cannot reset it, cannot complete this step). The way out is 'back' and then closing (upper left corner, 'X') the Fx Account registration step. But that's awkward to find, rather ugly and .. doesn't solve the underlying (utterly self-inflicted, obviously) issue of not being able to log into the Fx Account in the first place...


Expected results:

I expected some sort of 'password reset flow'. I already entered my email address. It should 'just work'.

Comment 1

[Josh Triplett]

The onboarding for a new Firefox system is similarly awkward, as Firefox does not actually remember the Firefox Account password the way it used to remember the Weave/Sync password.  The Password Manager cannot show the password in a form that allows the user to enter it in another device.

If you're used to using a password generator, pasting in a password, letting Firefox remember it, and *intentionally* never knowing or remembering the password, this does not work out well with Firefox Accounts.

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on