260295 - Alternate UI proposal: No 'remember password' popups to delay login.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Bryce Mozilla Nesbitt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

Here's a proposal for an alternate user interface for the password manager:

     Using the right-click content menu on a submit button would
     include a "remember password" option.
     This would replace the current pop-up window.

This lets the user decide, in advance, if the password should be remembered.  It
also makes it easy to remember a password on a previously-disabled site (I find
I hit the 'never remember' password button by habit, even on sites I want to
remember the password for).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[John]

This is actually a really cool idea, the popup delays the login and is
inherently bothersome. Another idea would be if a password field is detected a
little icon could load up in the status bar asking whether or not you would like
to remember the password, it could even be a checkbox that would allow you to
change the setting right there. Though I would find this highly useful, some
might see this and probably another item in the context menu as contributing to
bloat. Who knows.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Bryce Mozilla Nesbitt]

There are two reasons I think the context menu is better:

1) The popup window ("remember passwords") is often clutter -- I'm trying to log
in, and it brings up a window.

2) Often I've told it to remember (or not remember) passwords on a particular
site, but later I change my mind.  It is much easier to bring up a context menu,
rather than dive into Preferences->Privacy&Security->Passwords.

Comment 4

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mike, is this something we want ?

Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

A context menu is no very discoverable, especially on the submit button where
you don't expect it.

Would it be better to display an icon *inside* the password field, a bit like
the lock-icon + downward triangle which is now in the location field.

Comment 6

[Bryce Mozilla Nesbitt]

That seems OK.
The important principle is maintained -- not creating popups or otherwise
hindering the login process for those uninterested in the password feature.

Comment 7

[Bryce Mozilla Nesbitt]

Another possibility: Leave the 'remember passwords' feature unchanged.

But if password manger is turned off, make it easy to tell the brower to remember a SPECIFIC login.  Again, maybe the context menu could work (e.g. 'submit AND remember password').

Comment 8

[David P James]

Mass edit: Changing QA to default QA Contact

Comment 9

[Michael Wu [:mwu]]

You may be interested in the work being done for bug 226735.

Comment 10

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

can this be resolved one way (wont) or another (new) ?

Comment 11

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

confirming, will leave this for developers to decide if it's something they want to do.

Comment 12

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

bug 226735 covers the real issue, this implementation is hard to discover and not as useful, IMO, marking WONTFIX.