1583445 - Credentials not autofilled on Pinterest login form due to autocomplete=new-password

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Password Manager: Site Compatibility, defect, P5)

Description

[Timea Cernea [:tbabos][inactive]]

Attachment: Recording of the issue

Affected versions
Nightly71
Beta70
Release 69

Affected platforms
Windows 10 x64

Steps to reproduce

• Launch Firefox
• Go to https://ro.pinterest.com/
• Fill in email/password and save
• Reload the page (choose to log in with a different account if needed)

Expected result
The form should be auto-filled with the previously saved credentials given that its the only saved entry for the given site.

Actual Result
The form is not auto-filled. However, the autocomplete dropdown will appear and work correctly. Please check the recording.

Note
The already signed in account is because I couldn't find a way to sign out of my google account from pinterest on chrome to check the behavior there :(

Comment 1

[Timea Cernea [:tbabos][inactive]]

Attachment: Pinterest Console export.txt

Comment 2

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

From the log:

LoginManagerContent: not filling form, password field has the autocomplete new-password value LoginManagerContent.jsm:1888:12

This is expected since bug 1119063 but I agree not ideal. Pinterest shouldn't be using autocomplete=new-password on this field since it's not intended for new passwords, it's for login. Chrome probably has heuristics to ignore that but we don't have enough data to do that at the moment.