1798024 - Create auto-submit prototype for password manager as an addition to autofill

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1579298

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, task)

Description

[Janika Neuberger (:janikaneuberger)]

As described in Bug 1755724, the current autofill feature in the password manager has its price.
An addition to autofill could be an auto-submit feature.

Auto-Submit would have the following process:

1. User loads a page
2. Credentials saved in password manager are displayed in a autocomplete pop up
3. When the login page/form doesn't require any further user interaction like "Remember me"-Checkbox, reCaptcha, etc. the user or the password manager could automatically submit the login form.

E.g. the user could ctrl enter (or ctrl click) an option from the autocomplete list to auto-submit or we could classify for the user which forms don't have open user interactions and automatically submit in that case. This would have to be precised, because auto-submitting when the user still wants to interact with the page seems inconvenient.

Comment 1

[Janika Neuberger (:janikaneuberger)]

First steps:

• How many users use the password manager and have signon.autofillForms set to true?
• Should the user decide when to auto-submit?

Comment 2

[Sergey Galich [:serg]]

Attachment: WIP: Bug 1798024

Depends on D160671

Comment 3

[Sergey Galich [:serg]]

Suggestion: lets call it Fill & Submit? We have so many autos: autocomplete, autofill, autosubmit and I think for users it's much easier to understand "Fill & Submit".

Comment 4

[Janika Neuberger (:janikaneuberger)]

(In reply to Sergey Galich [:serg] from comment #3)

Suggestion: lets call it Fill & Submit? We have so many autos: autocomplete, autofill, autosubmit and I think for users it's much easier to understand "Fill & Submit".

Yes, let's get away from auto-ing every name!

I like Fill & Submit. But I am wondering if it creates confusion with autofill. It might sound like we want to automatically fill an submit, but maybe that's just me having the auto-prefix in my head.

Another idea: How about Complete & Submit, since we actually autocomplete first. That way there is no confusion?