1229750 - On the reset password page, it would be recommended to have a "Hide" button, instead of "Show" when text is revealed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 968344

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

Description

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

Reproduced across platform, on Mac OS X 10.11, Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 7 32-bit and Ubuntu 14.04 32-bit. 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. Focus the first text field (New Password) and enter some data.
6. Click on “Show” button..

Results:
When the text is revealed, it would be recommended to have a "Hide" button, instead of a "Show" one


Notes:
This issue also reproduces on 
This is not a recent regression.

Comment 1

[Ryan Kelly [:rfkelly]]

Thanks for the report; in previous bugs we've made an explicit UX decision *not* to change the text, because the words for "show" and "hide" may be different lengths in other languages; see e.g. But 968344 Comment 4.