1531164 - autocomplete=username field should get username autocompletions when there is no password field

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1900009

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

<input autocomplete=username>

should provide username suggestions from saved logins in autocomplete instead of form history.

This would probably be easiest to implement like the existing type=password special case in nsFormFillController::StartSearch (skipping markAsLoginManagerField) and then teaching the password manager autocomplete search code that the field should be treated as a username field.

• The downside of this approach is that it means that if there are no saved usernames, the user won't get a form history fallback…

The chrome-only API GetAutocompleteInfo exists on <input> to get the parsed values. We can check that the fieldName returned is "username".

Comment 1

[Sergey Galich [:serg]]

Moving to P3 as this is not happening in the next release cycle.

Comment 2

[Issam Mani [:issammani]]

Now that we have Bug 1900009 implemented all fields with autocomplete=username should get the ac popup when we have a login in storage. Closing as duplicate of Bug 1900009