1078658 - Support a way to 'peek' at passwords in login forms

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Logins, Passwords and Form Fill, defect)

Description

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Adding the ability to 'peek' at readable passwords in web forms is becoming more prevalent, especially in mobile native applications. Let's consider adding something like that to Firefox. I think adding an action to the actionbar for password fields sounds easy enough.

Thoughts?

Comment 1

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Yup, with the caveat that in an action bar this would be very reliant on a super clear icon.

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

My simple strawman impl idea is to use a variant of the "validation" popup to display the password for a short time after a tap on the actionbar button. It shouldn't be a mode that keeps the password always visible.

http://people.mozilla.org/~mfinkle/fennec/screenshots/fennec-form-validation.png

Microsoft has something in IE that only 'peeks' the password while the user has the button pressed. Release the button and the 'peek' goes away. We could try the temporary popup approach as a start.

Comment 3

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

(In reply to Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) from comment #2)
> My simple strawman impl idea is to use a variant of the "validation" popup
> to display the password for a short time after a tap on the actionbar
> button. It shouldn't be a mode that keeps the password always visible.

Oh, I like it!

I'm not sure how that'll feel in the action bar, but I don't know how much choice we have given the constraints of the web (e.g., difficult to stick a button at the end of the text field).

Build it and see, I guess.

Comment 4

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

I don't see this necessarily as a page action but more appropriate for an input context.

Comment 5

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

(In reply to Aaron Train [:aaronmt] from comment #4)
> I don't see this necessarily as a page action but more appropriate for an
> input context.

nm, page action != action bar action

Comment 6

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Desktop has a similar bug: bug 502258. I don't think we want the exact same UX though.

Comment 7

[Tanvi Vyas[:tanvi]]

I mentored some students to do this in a firefox addon.  The addon would add a closed "eye" to the end of the password field.  When you clicked on the eye, it opened and you could see your password.  When you unclicked it would close and your password would be hidden again.  We called it "Password Eye".  You could do something similar with phones/tablets using touch events instead of click events.  But you still have the problem of trying to add an icon to a text box.

Comment 8

[chris]

im being hacked with my Gmail account, I've done everything under the sun to stop this idiot from doing it over and over but he keeps finding ways to get me,change passwords,fb accounts, messages. Can someone help me stop this and get his password so I can erase all my personal info?

Comment 9

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