1398681 - Add toast notifications when forms, passwords and credit cards are saved

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Ashish Vijayaram [:ashish]]

STR:
* Open a login page, enter credentials
* Firefox offers to remember the login credentials, press Remember

Actual results:
* No feedback whether the login credentials were stored

Expected results:
* A visual confirmation of the credentials being stored
* If this was the first time, also show the user the appropriate section in Preferences

After Firefox saves form information, username/password credentials, or credit card numbers, there is no visual confirmation. A simple toast notification would be a great improvement over no feedback at all. The user gets a visual confirmation of an action instead of wondering what really happened.

Ideally, the user should also be shown where to find these in Preferences, but a visual toast would be a good start. Bug 1387042 provides such a toast for the Copy link and Email link page actions.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

This isn't really directly related to 1387042 besides the fact that that used a toast, too, so I don't think we need to track it as "see also".

Comment 2

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

For login credentials, isn't the key icon disappearing enough feedback?

Comment 3

[Ashish Vijayaram [:ashish]]

I would not have opened this bug if not for the pleasant user experience with the "Copy Link..." page action :) It would be great if the same UX can be extended to other actions that have historically not provided any feedback to the user on success.

Comment 4

[Issam Mani [:issammani]]

Attachment: Bug 1398681 - Display confirmation hints for address, credit card and login operations. r=#credential-management-reviewers!

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/bd605fc6cb3e
Display confirmation hints for address, credit card and login operations. r=credential-management-reviewers,fluent-reviewers,flod,dimi

Comment 6

[Cristian Tuns]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/bd605fc6cb3e

Comment 7

[Donal Meehan [:dmeehan]]

:issammanic do you think this should be nominated for a relnote? https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Release_Notes_Nomination