Closed Bug 270918 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Firefox should try the saved password for a site before prompting

Categories

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Password Manager
Platform:
PowerPC
All
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 223636

People

(Reporter: skip, Assigned: bryner)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041119 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041119 Firefox/0.9.1+

Firefox never tries the saved username/password when visiting a site.  It should
try first then prompt if the username/password fails.  I have my home page
password protected.  You can't believe how annoying it is that Firefox never
uses the information I've given it.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Visit a site that requires a username and password.  Save them.  Restart.  Visit
that site again.



Expected Results:  
Try the saved information and prompt only if the response is a 401.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 223636 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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