211884 - Option to ignore autocomplete="off" in forms

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 124065

(SeaMonkey :: Passwords & Permissions, enhancement)

Description

[Olav Reinert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

Some sites that have a login page use the autocomplete="off" attribute on the
password input field to prevent the Password Manager from storing the password
and filling it in on a subsequent visit to the login page.

I think this behaviour is extremely annoying - why does the site creator get to
decide whether I want to store the password for that site or not?

I'd like to have a preference option that causes autocomplete="off" to be
ignored and the password to be stored and filled in the login form regardless.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

This is already available as a hidden pref.  See the dup'ed bug.

To make this option visible in the GUI is already determined to be a WONTFIX.

Mozilla honors autocomplete=off on web pages because without it several banking
sites would block users from using Mozilla for their online banking.  See bug 63961.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124065 ***