1324453 - Allow more than 20 saved logins to be shown in username/password form fill

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, enhancement, P5)

Description

[George K.]

I can't find the bug where the work was done, but apparently some of the recent work to improve the Password Manager and username/password form fill experience also limited the number of usernames that will be shown in the form fill suggestions to 20.

I happen to have a lot of logins for a system that only differ near the very end (something like "testlogin-testuser1", "testlogin-testuser2", ...).

In order to find usernames that are more than 20 from the top of the list (e.g. "testlogin-testuser30"), I now have to type in enough of the username to reduce the results to 20 or fewer. It used to be a lot faster to scroll or arrow through my long list than to type most of the repetitive username just to get to the unique part near the end.

It would be great if there was an about:config setting that let me expand the number of results that appear in the username form fill.

I understand that the limit of 20 was probably chosen for performance reasons and that my use case is outside the norm. Still, it's my own foot, so if it is possible to give me the ability to make an informed decision to shoot it I'd appreciate the accommodation.

Alternately, it would be great to be able to type in part of the username and have the suggestions filter based on my string appearing anywhere in the username, as opposed to the beginning. As an example, if I typed in "3", the match would be for "*3*" and would find "testlogin-testuser13", "testlogin-testuser3", "testlogin-testuser30", etc. I know there can be performance implications to using mid-string searches vs. "starts with" searches, though.

Comment 1

[Sergey Galich [:serg]]

There is no such limit anymore