1899258 - [meta] Implement an autofill developer tool provides functionalities to facilitate easier debugging of autofill issues.

Status: ASSIGNED

(Toolkit :: Form Autofill, enhancement)

Description

[Dimi Lee [:dimi]]

What if we can have an about:autofill page that support:

• Show the current feature status, including:
  • Feature On/Off status
  • Supported regions
• Show field detected information
  • Include both detected fields and unrecognized fields
  • Being able to show attributes that associated with element. For example, id, name, label , etc
• Debug Utility
  • Button to turn on debug
  • Create a temporarily address/credit profile for debugging
  • Support editable temporarily profile
• Support manually trigger form submission
• Support copying the information in about:autofill. Similar to “Copy raw data to clipboard” function in about:support
• Support analysis log
  ... etc

Comment 1

[Dimi Lee [:dimi]]

Attachment: Bug 1899258 - Implement an about:autofill page that provides functionalities to facilitate easier debugging of autofill issues. r=#credential-management-reviewers

This patch adds an about:autofill page intended only for developers.
The currernt patch only provides a prototype, we can extend the
about:autofill page to support more features in the future.

One of the features of about:autofill is the ability to inspect field information on a page.
This feature is default off and can be enabled by setting "extensions.formautofill.inspector.enabled" to true.
Once enabled, an "Inspect Autofill Fields" entry will be displayed in the context menu.
Clicking this entry triggers the field identification process, displaying relevant information on
the about page.