1229748 - Pressing "Show" on reset password page reveals both password fields

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1010201

(Cloud Services :: Server: Firefox Accounts, defect)

Description

[Cornel Ionce [:noni] [Hubs QA]]

Reproduced on Mac OS X 10.11 using:
*Firefox 42
*Firefox 43 beta 8
*latest 44.0a2 Aurora
*latest 45.0a1 Nightly

STR:
*pre-requisite:
**the user has a FxAccount.
1. Open Firefox using a clean profile.
2. Click on one of the available Sync buttons (e.g. about:home, about:preferences#sync, menu panel, Tools).
3. Select “Sign in” and click the "Forget password?" link.
4. Enter your email address and wait for the 'Reset password........' email. Click on the link received in the email
5. Enter some data in the new/repeat password textures.
6. Select “Show” for the New Password field.

Expected Result:
The text within the New password field is revealed. 

Actual Result:
The text from the both fields is revealed.

Screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/rEce2rH.png

Notes:
This issue also reproduces on Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 7 32-bit and Ubuntu 14.04 32-bit.
This is not a recent regression.

Comment 1

[Ryan Kelly [:rfkelly]]

/cc :rfeeley since this is a UX bug; Ryan, thoughts?

Comment 2

[Ryan Kelly [:rfkelly]]

Assigning to :rfeeley to confirm whether this is a bug, or desired behaviour

Comment 3

[Ryan Feeley [:rfeeley]]

It is as designed, and we have no indication that it's upsetting to users. Last I checked, users show their password on the password reset page more than any other page, so erring on the side of convenience may not be bad. Worth a test?