176642 - Password manager over-writes pre-populated forms.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 112260

(SeaMonkey :: Passwords & Permissions, enhancement)

Description

[m_venzke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910

I administrate some forums & the user administration panel shows me a form with
the current user's name & deatils.  Unfortuantely, password manager attempts to
be helpful & log me in, overwriting the values that were originally there,
forcing me to correct them every time I change some detail on a user's account.
 Further, it saves duplicates of my account for me on the same site (e.g. the
same username & same password on the same site, then asks me which one I want to
use to log in with as though there was a difference)  It wouldn't hurt to have
it auto-ask to 'forget' the password you just entered if you type it wrong & get
a 401 error, for that matter.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter a form like this:
<input type="text" name="username" size="35" maxlength="40" value="Someone Else" />
<input type="password" name="password" size="35" maxlength="100" value="" />
<input type="password" name="password_confirm" size="35" maxlength="100" value="" />
2. Replace 'Someone Else' with the login of your choice & have password manager
save that data.
3. Reload the page--you will no longer see 'Someone Else' but the fields contain
your username & password instead.
Actual Results:  
This is the form it's filling in for me.  Note that 'Someone Else' is what
should be displayed there, but password manager over-writes that value with my
username (and enters my password in the first password field, but not the second).

<input type="text" name="username" size="35" maxlength="40" value="Someone Else" />
<input type="password" name="password" size="35" maxlength="100" value="" />
<input type="password" name="password_confirm" size="35" maxlength="100" value="" />

Expected Results:  
It should see that the username part of the form has been filled in & not
attempt to fill it in, or it should at least only fill in the password, or its
behavior should be made configurable.  Note that if the form has already been
filled in, there's no need for password manager to fill it in for you, anyhow.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112260 ***