Closed Bug 1595915 Opened 5 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Context Menu: have suggest secure password option at the top of the main list

Tracking

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Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

Milestone:

mozilla74

Tracking Flags:

Tracking

Status

firefox70

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unaffected

firefox71

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unaffected

firefox72

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unaffected

firefox73

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wontfix

firefox74

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fixed

People

(Reporter: ssage, Assigned: MattN)

References

(Blocks 2 open bugs)

Details

(Whiteboard: [passwords:fill-ui] [passwords:generation])

User Story

Telemetry requests from Sandy to help prioritize bug 1609853:
* How often the context menu is opened on a password field?
* How often the generation option in the context menu is used?

Attachments

(4 files, 2 obsolete files)

Screen Shot 2019-11-12 at 2.31.08 PM.png 5 years ago Sandy Sage 522.81 KB, image/png		Details
Context Menu for Password Generation / mini spec 5 years ago katieC 3.86 MB, image/png		Details
sub-menu.png 5 years ago Ryan Feeley [:rfeeley] 78.96 KB, image/png		Details
Context Menu for Password Generation : mini spec.png 4 years ago katieC 2.08 MB, image/png		Details
Bug 1595915 - Move the password generation context menu item to the top-level. r=sfoster! 4 years ago Matthew N. [:MattN] 47 bytes, text/x-phabricator-request		Details \| Review
Bug 1595915 - Don't check #fill-login-popup visibility in pwgen context menu tests. r=sfoster 4 years ago Matthew N. [:MattN] 47 bytes, text/x-phabricator-request		Details \| Review

Sandy Sage

Reporter

Description

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5 years ago

Attached image Screen Shot 2019-11-12 at 2.31.08 PM.png — Details

Currently, when the login form does not automatically prompt to generate a secure password, the option is to go to the context menu > fill password > use a securely generated password.

I'd like to make that 'back up' option more accessible/visible to users in all the cases where automatically generating a password doesn't work.

attaching Chrome screenshot for comparison

Flags: needinfo?(kcaldwell)

Flags: needinfo?(MattN+bmo)

Comment hidden (obsolete)

Ryan Feeley [:rfeeley]

Comment 2

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5 years ago

Attached image sub-menu.png — Details

Existing sub-menu attached for reference.

I wish more people were right-clicking on the password field, but probably not that many are doing it. Still, for those that do, and who don't already have a saved password, it could be easier to paste a generated password.

Sub-menus are cumbersome to navigate, but this one does confirm for the user that there are (No Login Suggestions). Does that not warrant the real estate?

My guess is that Paste is probably the most popular option here, as many keep their passwords outside of Firefox. I don't imagine that making an exception to move the password features above Cut/Copy/Paste just for this context is warranted.

Another issue to consider is that the string Use a Securely Generated Password is too long for many non-English locales like French, Spanish and (nefoedd!) Welsh. I think our truncation limit is 42 characters, and those locales and many others exceed it. Moving a string this big into the top level obscures even more content on the web page beneath.

I would suggest for users without a saved password replace Fill Password section with:

Use Generated Password
View Saved Logins