1903784 - When autofill is disabled, the password is no longer offered to be filled out manually

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android :: Autofill, defect, P3)

Description

[Kamil Páral]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:127.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/127.0

Steps to reproduce:

I have Settings -> Passwords -> Autofill in Firefox disabled (I read that it's better for security purposes), and used to fill out the saved passwords manually by clicking into the username/password field in a website, and then clicking on a saved password entry bar that would appear just above the keyboard. But this is no longer possible in Firefox 127.0, the bar above the keyboard never appears. So I had to enable "Autofill in Firefox" to be able to log in to websites. But I'd like to go back to manually filling out the passwords, so I'm reporting this regression.

I have Samsung A33 5G with Android 14 and One UI 6.1. Firefox is 127.0.

Actual results:

The saved password bar stopped appearing above keyboard, when a username/password field is focused

Expected results:

The bar should appear, so that I can fill out login details manually.
Note: The bar still appears, when I have autofill enabled and there are multiple saved logins. So the bar is technically working, it just no longer appears when autofill is disabled.

Comment 1

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Comment 2

[Segun Famisa [:segun]]

Thank you for reporting this bug.

Note: The bar still appears, when I have autofill enabled and there are multiple saved logins. So the bar is technically working, it just no longer appears when autofill is disabled.

This is an intended behavior.

When "Autofill in Firefox" is disabled, we turn off the functionality and ability to autofill passwords, so that is why you don't see the behavior when it is disabled.

This raises the question - is the language here confusing?

I'll take this to the team, but I'll close this bug for now. Thank you.

Comment 3

[Kamil Páral]

It is confusing, because a) it used to work, and b) the desktop Firefox behaves the same way as mobile Firefox < 127. In other words, mobile Firefox behavior is now different from desktop Firefox.

With desktop Firefox, I can use autofill (pre-populate the fields), or don't use autofill and then a popup appears when I focus the username/password field and I can manually choose whether to populate it or not.

With mobile Firefox, it was exactly the same. But since 127, the second option was removed.