Open Bug 1830848 Opened 1 year ago Updated 1 year ago

[meta] Improve WebAuthn error messages

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Web Authentication, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Web Authentication
Version:
Firefox 114
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

()

Status:
ASSIGNED

People

(Reporter: pgadmin, Assigned: jschanck)

References

Details

(Keywords: meta)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/112.0

Steps to reproduce:

Testing webauthn

Actual results:

On error conditions, more or less indifferent exceptions are thrown, when something is detected like

  • key not registered for website
  • key already registered
  • user abort/timeout
    .

Expected results:

The user should get some proper hint what's happening.

Since the detailed problem isn't available when the exception is thrown, the hint can't be supplied by javascript code. Instead the browser itself should issue user hint messages.
IMHO Chrome does quite a good job there.

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::DOM: Web Authentication' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → DOM: Web Authentication
Product: Firefox → Core
Assignee: nobody → jschanck
Status: UNCONFIRMED → ASSIGNED
Depends on: 1831392
Ever confirmed: true
Keywords: meta
Summary: webauthn error messages → [meta] Improve WebAuthn error messages
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