2037924 - Firefox displays the masked password when a page is printed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2037803

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

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Attachment: Anmelden _ ComputerBase Forum.pdf

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:152.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/152.0

Steps to reproduce:

I open a login page, enter the login date and save the page.

Example

https://www.computerbase.de/forum/login/

The entered password is masked, but the previewed, saved and printed password is unmasked.

See attachments.
Name and Password

Tested with
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:150.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/150.0
and
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:152.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/152.0

Actual results:

The unmasked Password is displayed and printed.

Expected results:

The password should be masked when displayed and printed.

Comment 1

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Attachment: Screenshot 2026-05-07 at 17-34-49 Anmelden ComputerBase Forum.png

Comment 2

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Attachment: Screenshot 2026-05-07 at 17-56-46 Anmelden ComputerBase Forum.png

The print preview showing the password in plain text.