181816 - Better behavior for password manager?

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Passwords & Permissions, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

I don't always know which password I have at a given site, so I want to try out
a few (and hopefully one of my tries will be the right password). 
Unfortunately, Moz asks me if I want to remember the password immediately upon
submit - when I don't necessarily know that the password is correct yet.

I think a better behavior would be for the password manager to pop up on the
*next* page, asking if you want to store the information just entered.  This
way, I can see if the password was in fact correct.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Stephen P. Morse]

If the password was wrong and you try again, the second saved password for the
same site and username will overwrite the first.  So there's no reason to fear
saving the guessed passwords.

Comment 2

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

Thanks.  Should this be made a little clearer in the dialog that pops up?

Comment 3

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

Reassigning unconfirmed form and password manager bugs to the new owner

Comment 4

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

Re: comment #1, I think we still need a confirmation.  Moving the dialog to the
following page would save users from having to go through the prefs to find and
delete the incorrect saved passwords.

Another possibility would be to ask the user if he/she would like to replace the
existing saved password (rather than add another one) when something different
from the previously-saved username/password combination is entered.  With this
solution, I'm not sure what could be done if the user already has more than one
combination saved, and just wants to replace one of them but not remove the rest.

Comment 5

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

*** Bug 226735 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Oo.et.oO]

when one uses a different username it does not overwrite the previous entry. 
password save dialog should pop after page load..
list of existing usernames/passwd (maybe user should decide if it's okay to show
passwords, or wildcards, or none) pairs should also appear with correct
overwrite behavior (confirmation).

Comment 7

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This is as designed. If you get the password wrong it will be corrected when you
get it right. 

Comment 8

[Andrew Schultz]

*** Bug 301396 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***