107957 - Username sorting in the username dropdown autocomplete list.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Hakon]

I have several passwords stored for one same site, and I want the popup list to 
sort the usernames alphabetically, not be when they were added.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

reporter: Please select the correct component if you file a bug.

Comment 2

[Stephen P. Morse]

It's not sorted by when they were added but rather by the most-recently-used.  
That was done intentionally because the login you would probably want to use is 
the login that you last used.

Comment 3

[Hakon]

OK, that's a good thought. But what about a preferences option for either
1. by last used
2. alphabetically

Comment 4

[Stephen P. Morse]

Do you think it would be a common occurence to have so many different logins for 
a particular website that you would need to have it alphabetized in order to 
find the one you want?

Comment 5

[Hakon]

There's no need for being sarcastic.
It's a matter of having it look neat in accordance with one's own preferences.

Comment 6

[Hakon]

Maybe the user list could be in alphabetic order, but the last used user name 
was highlighted...?

Comment 7

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

Reassigning to new module owner.

Comment 8

[Max Nokhrin]

Actually, shouldn't it just sort alphabetically when I click on the user name.
Sorting by last usage date/time is confusing, and should probably have a
separate column for this. I was very confused about this when I tried sorting...

Comment 9

[David G King]

This is probably OT, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

In Tools-PasswordManager, the ability to sort by username exists in Mozilla
1.5alpha.

Comment 10

[Franck Wolff]

This sort option is very important for us: we develop SAS softwares and we do have, for the same application and URL, hundreds of logins/passwords (those of our customers).

Regards (thanks for Firefox), Franck.

Comment 11

[Robert Kaiser]

The new Data Manager in SeaMonkey 2.1 supports that for the per-domain password lists.

Comment 12

[Philip Chee]

We are now using the toolkit login manager on Trunk SeaMonkey 2.1. Punting to the toolkit team.

Comment 14

[Bernardo Rittmeyer [:rittme]]

https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=fd613a7bc5d9

Comment 15

[Bernardo Rittmeyer [:rittme]]

Wrong try message. This one should be better:
https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=96919db21bd1

Comment 16

[Bernardo Rittmeyer [:rittme]]

Attachment: MozReview Request: Bug 107957 - Fixed sorting order for password manager autocomplete. r=MattN

Bug 107957 - Fixed sorting order for password manager autocomplete. r=MattN

Comment 17

[Bernardo Rittmeyer [:rittme]]

An this is, finally, the real try push:
https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=795293b3afff

Comment 18

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Comment on attachment 8642918 [details]
MozReview Request: Bug 107957 - Fixed sorting order for password manager autocomplete. r=MattN

https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/14985/#review13463

Wow! I'm surprised not a single test needed changing. That probably means there should be one checking the order…

Comment 19

[Bernardo Rittmeyer [:rittme]]

I filed bug 1190898 so we can write those tests.

Comment 20

[Pulsebot]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/fx-team/rev/12de634ab37b

Comment 21

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/12de634ab37b

Comment 22

[Philip Chee]

Thank you Bernardo!

Comment 23

[Mihai Boldan, Desktop QA [:mboldan]]

I was able to reproduce this issue on Windows 10 x86 using Firefox 20.0a1 (20121201030812).
This issue is not reproducible on Windows 10 x86, using Firefox 42.0b6 (20151012151721) and Firefox 44.0a1 (20151014030223).