Add option to generate a new secure password from the context menu for the same principal and session
Categories
(Toolkit :: Password Manager, enhancement, P3)
Tracking
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| Tracking | Status | |
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| firefox-esr60 | --- | unaffected |
| firefox-esr68 | --- | unaffected |
| firefox68 | --- | unaffected |
| firefox69 | --- | disabled |
| firefox70 | --- | wontfix |
| firefox71 | --- | wontfix |
People
(Reporter: aflorinescu, Unassigned)
References
(Blocks 2 open bugs)
Details
(Whiteboard: [passwords:generation])
Reusing the "Use a securely generated password" to generate a second secure password is not possible for the same session/principal: the generated secure password is cached and reused throughout the session for the same principal.
Possible workarounds to do the above would be private window(unavailable due bug 1566533) , containers or just old plain browser restart: none of these options are straight-forward or intuitive for an user.
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Comment 1•4 years ago
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We already had bug 1551723 filed but it was specific to autocomplete so I made this be for the context menu. This is in our AC MVP++ list already for things to consider adding to the MVP list so I will remove it from Skyline.
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Updated•4 years ago
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Updated•4 years ago
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Comment 10•2 years ago
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Since there are heuristics available to collect password+usernames from login forms, can we not use the same heuristics to determine if the same username fields are set in the form doing this password generation?
If then we collect the username from the field, we could use that to supplement the salt for the password generator, and create new password-generator principal/session based on the user supplied username.
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Comment 11•2 years ago
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The context menu now opens the autocomplete menu, so I'm going dupe this to bug 1551723
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