1579298 - Automatically submit login forms when they are autocompleted

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

If we have a login "form" (LoginForm, not necessarily using <form>) and it wasn't autofilled (e.g. the user disabled autofilled) then we can try to "submit" it when the user autocompletes the field so that they don't need an extra click with autofill off compared to on.

Some problems to consider:

• "forms" with additional fields
  • 2FA codes or PINs
  • checkbox to "Remember me"
  • etc.
• Sites which don't use <form>
• Sites which use <form> but don't use the form submission to actually login and instead use a click handler on a button. We would need to determine what button to "click".

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The meta keyword is there, the bug doesn't depend on other bugs and there is no activity for 12 months.
:sfoster, maybe it's time to close this bug?

Comment 2

[Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)]

We are still considering this as a feature - as this is how it works on Safari.
But as there is no immediate plan to implement this, I've removed the meta keyword and we can leave it in the enhancement bucket.