1749612 - Font for passwords should use distinct glyphs

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: about:logins, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Sergey Galich [:serg]]

For passwords we should use a font with distinct glyphs. Currently if password has 1 (digit one) or l (lower case L) - they look almost the same.

Comment 1

[Sergey Galich [:serg]]

Attachment: l1l1l1l1lll1l11l.png

Comment 3

[Sergey Galich [:serg]]

Lowering to P3 as we still have not found the reasonable font to utilize.

Comment 4

[Paul Rubin]

This is not an enhancement request, it is a requested fix for broken functionality. Could it please be reclassified to "bug"? In the case of displayed passwords, it's often not possible to tell the letter "l" from the digit "1" by context, since the passwords are machine generated random strings. So the intended function of showing the password (allowing the user to, say, type it into another computer) doesn't work. I've run into this a few times when manually transfering passwords between my phone and my laptop.