The password generator keeps generating the same password (and without special characters)
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(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)
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(Reporter: thbmatrix, Unassigned)
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(Blocks 1 open bug)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0
Steps to reproduce:
I was signing up for an account at a website and Firefox did generate a password that is neither of my taste nor accepted by the website. The website required the password to contain at least 1 special character (#, !, $, etc). As far as I remember, Firefox usually generated passwords with special characters (or at least I thought it was), so I decided to give it another shot: reloaded the page and asked it to generate again.
It happened again and I decided to try again, a couple of times, until I realized the password coming was always the same, which is weird enough. Then I opened a new tab thinking: well, perhaps it might be that it generate only one per tab. But I was wrong, it kept generating the same password all the time. When I tried with a new container it got me a new password, but again without special characters (I will, in the sequence, submit a separate feature suggestion about that).
PS: As I tested it in multiple websites, profiles and containers, I prefer not to mention the website as I feel it is not necessary to reproduce. I can mention if necessary, though.
Actual results:
The password generated for any given website keeps the same in multiple reloads, as long as it's in the same container, regardless of page refreshes or if I open a new tab and open the website again.
Expected results:
I think it should generate a new password every time I click "Use a securely generated password".
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Updated•3 years ago
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Comment 1•3 years ago
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Hi Bruno, thanks for filing this. As for the main issue, generating a new password on demand, we have Bug 1551723 (and I'm going to dupe this bug against that one). Bug 1551723 would end up implementing the ability to get a new password, which appears to be the underlying issue.
As for your second issue, we have Bug 1570215 which address adding special characters to the generated password.
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