Closed Bug 1486213 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Accessibility setting to see passwords

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout: Form Controls
Version:
61 Branch
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 502258

People

(Reporter: erwinm, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0 Build ID: 20180807170231 Steps to reproduce: I know it's standard practice to hide passwords. Actual results: This can be a problem for clumsy users-- we can't tell where to correct our typos if we can't se ou typos-- and for any users if caps lock gets turned on, or scripts get switched, without any indication on the keyboard. Expected results: If I could check the screen after typing my password, I could check whether I've mis-typed it and how.
Bug 502258 already exists for UI to show typed passwords. I think that's more likely to be implemented than a hidden setting to always show passwords. Several add-ons provide the feature: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/showhide-passwords/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/see-my-passwords/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/show-me-the-passsword/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/password-toggler/ Bug 259059 is for a Caps Lock indicator.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Component: Untriaged → Layout: Form Controls
OS: Unspecified → All
Product: Firefox → Core
Hardware: Unspecified → All
Yeah, I think this is effectively a duplicate of bug 502258.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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