1611722 - Password Popup is too confusing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1610556

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, enhancement)

Description

[leite.carvalho]

Attachment: firefox_password_popup.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. visit any login form where you have 10+ entries
2. Click on input
3. Try to find quickly what saved password fits.

My first visual filter when looking at the list is:

1. Search from the exact URL entries
2. Find latest, as its the most common

The issue is that there's too much information that's competing for attention.
I really appreciate the meta info like "from .." and date, but these are too preeminent.

What i would like is to have a visual break from the different sections:
"from the website"
"same domain"
... etc

The second is to have a separate element for the date so i can re-arrange the date away from the entry.

The third, and most important to make the date info actually relevant, is to have the "last used" date instead of "last modified".

example in the attachment of what i would want to achieve.

I can work with userchrome to improve the readability between the section name and the login entry. but i'm missing more classes and elements.

Actual results:

3. Can't quickly select.

Expected results:

As mentioned above, i would like to have better visual cues.

Thank you for listening!

Comment 1

[leite.carvalho]

related https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1601442

Comment 2

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

I'm marking this as a duplicate of bug 1610556 - which also calls for some visual differentiation between the whole origin and subdomain matches.

We can't currenly use last-used dates instead of last-modified, as last-used dates are incremented for both successful and unsuccessful login attempts. I think the suggestion is that last-used would be a better way of picking out which of multiple matching logins you would want to use. Really, the best fix here is for the user to remove old/stale logins.

Comment 3

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

The second is to have a separate element for the date so i can re-arrange the date away from the entry.

Please file a separate bug for this if its something you are still interested in seeing.

Comment 4

[leite.carvalho]

thanks @samFoster.

sadly, removing old/stale logins isn't possible as i rely on ff to store my passwords, and don't want to write them down.

looking forward to the fix :)