1636446 - Firefox Import choices wizard is triggered in a loop if the username is not saved in Chrome

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Messaging System, defect, P3)

Description

[Valentina Virlics [:vvalentina], VPN QA]

Attachment: no username.png

[Affected versions]:

• Firefox Nightly 78.0a1 Build ID 20200508093543;

[Affected Platforms]:

• Windows 10;
• Mac OS 10.14;
• Ubuntu 18.04 x64;

[Prerequisites]:

• Have the pref “signon.showAutoCompleteImport” set to “import”;
• Have the latest Chrome installed and save credentials (only password) for a site;
• Have a new Firefox profile opened;

[Steps to reproduce]:

1. Open the browser with the profile from prerequisites.
2. Open the site for which you saved credentials for.
3. Click in the username field.

[Expected result]:
The import suggestions dropdown is not displayed.

[Actual result]:
The import suggestions dropdown is displayed. The import wizard can be completed.

[Notes]:

• After finalizing the wizard and clicking again in the username field the import suggestions dropdown is re-displayed.
• After finalizing the first import, clicking on the password field will trigger the saved logins.
• Firefox import suggestions wizard is not triggered if the username is not saved while using Edge, for specific site.

Comment 1

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

To be clear, the import process does end up importing the password for the site as shown in attachment 9146774 [details]. However because Firefox has a saved password for the page, the username field can show "View Saved Logins" autocomplete entry even with the import suggestions turned off.

Marking as P3 for now as many login forms don't allow submitting without a username. Another way to end up in this situation is the user did enter a username and explicitly told chrome not to save the username.

One potential fix if we turn on this feature by default is to only consider logins that have both username and password as "importable" to show the suggestion?