Open Bug 1578854 Opened 6 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Record directionality of login fields when storing logins to display usernames/passwords in their correct direction

Categories

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, enhancement, P3)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Password Manager
Type:
enhancement

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People

(Reporter: itiel_yn8, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: rtl, Whiteboard: [passwords:storage])

This is a follow up of bug 1577271.
See the conversation about it, esp. Ehsan comment here.

Since we can't atm determine the correct (or rather, intended) directionality of a username/password field, we force LTR them for all cases, because the majority of users are probably using LTR characters.

tbh, I think this is probably a step in the right direction (no pun intended), but even this is not perfect.

Imagine this scenario:
A website uses RTL for the username/password fields, but the user's choice of a password is e.g. "A123!".
In this case, the intended directionality of the user is LTR, but about:logins would display it as "!A123" after fixing this bug.

Not sure what could be the alternative though.

Keywords: rtl
Priority: -- → P3
Whiteboard: [passwords:storage]
Severity: normal → S3
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