1626138 - Add a pref to disable the OS authentication prompt

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: about:logins, enhancement)

Description

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

This pref will be temporary until we are confident in the implementation and that the feature will not cause too much churn during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Comment 1

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Attachment: Bug 1626138 - Add a temporary pref to disable the OS auth prompt. r?MattN

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/ba54e88de351
Add a temporary pref to disable the OS auth prompt. r=sfoster

Comment 3

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Please file the bug to remove the pref so we don't get people trying to get bounty money for something which is intentional.

Comment 4

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1626778 to remove the pref.

Comment 5

[Cosmin Sabou [:CosminS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/ba54e88de351

Comment 6

[Cosmin Muntean [:cmuntean], Ecosystem QA]

I have verified if the pref works as expected if it's set to "false" using the latest Nightly 76.0a1 build (Build ID: 20200402095145) on Windows 10 x64, Mac 10.14.6. Here are the results:

• If the OS authentication prompt is disabled using the pref, the auth dialog is no longer triggered when the "Show Password", "Copy password" or "Edit" button is clicked.
• However, even if the OS authentication prompt is disabled using the pref, when trying to create a master password the auth dialog is triggered. I have logged this behavior in bug 1626956.

Considering this I will mark this issue as verified fixed and will track the described behavior in bug 1626956.