264520 - I use the APC Biomed password manager. When I use Firefox to load a webpage, the Biomed device does not recognize that there are any username & passwords required. It won't work.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Gregg Rappaport]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

I use the APC Biomed password manager. When I use Firefox to load a webpage, the
Biomed device does not recognize that there are any username & passwords
required. It won't work.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.click on page shortcut
2.Biomed doesn't activate
3.some sites I can manually log in, others I cannot

Actual Results:  
I can't use Firefox the way it is, but I am starting to hate IE

Expected Results:  
certainly Firefox and/or APC can fix this problem

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, do you mean the "APC Personal Biometric USB Pod" that I found at :
<http://www.apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=246&ISOCountryCode=ww> ? APC
doesn't mention compatibility with Firefox, so how can this be our bug ? You
should write to APC.

Comment 2

[Luca]

OS: Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2, update.
The software SOFTEX Omnipass ver. 2.00.89 which comes with APC Biopod doesn't
work in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird (or vice-versa!)
It seems not to be able to recognize password fields in these applications.
I've mailed the problem to SOFTEX support ([e-mail]) and they 
replay that Omnipass only supports Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher at
this time. I know that it is not a bug of Firefox or Thunderbird or Omnipass,
but it will be good if you and SOFTEX would resolve the problem.
Thank you, best regards (and excuse me for not very good english)
Luca, Italy

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

It's up to third party software to make itself compatible with Firefox. This is
not a Firefox bug.