271038 - Firefox does not correctly handle all passwords imported from Mozilla

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Hodor!]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

Firefox 1.0 will import passwords from Mozilla (in my case, Mozilla 1.7),
however it will not correctly handle the recall of those passwords for all
websites. When visiting a website with Mozilla where the password manager would
automatically prompt to ask what username to use, Firefox will instead sit idle.
Double-clicking the username field DOES NOT produce a drop-down menu. However,
if the username is manually entered, tabbing to the password field will
automatically fill in the correct password.

This appears to be in part due to the "wallet.crypto.autocompleteoverride"
preference existing in Mozilla which Firefox does not honor. However, I have
also had this problem with
https://global1.onlinebank.com/cgi-forte/fortecgi.exe/frte_cs0?BankTag=612coastal&TemplateName=Login.htm&ServiceName=webteller
which does NOT use the autocomplete="off" attribute.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use Mozilla to browse to a website that normally requests autocomplete be
off, and have the "wallet.crypto.autocompleteoverride" option set to true.
2. Enter a test username and password and login. Tell Mozilla to save the
password info.
3. Repeat the above with a second user/pass combo.
4. Install Firefox (or delete profiles and restart Firefox). Import password
settings from Mozilla.
5. Attempt to access website as before with Firefox

Actual Results:  
No pick-list appeared for username field. Had to manually enter username to get
password field to populate.

Expected Results:  
Double-clicking username field should have given a pick-list for the username to
login with, and auto-filled both the username and password.

Comment 1

[Hodor!]

See also Bug #271039

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Hodor!]

This bug is actually due to the difference in behavior between Firefox and
Mozilla regarding the "autofill=off" tag used in some webpages. Mozilla has a
hidden preference that can disable obeyance to the tag. Firefox does not. So for
users of Mozilla who had "autofill=off" support disabled, there may be passwords
saved which will no longer function under Firefox.

Not a bug as this is by design. However, Firefox never notifies the end-user of
this behavior when importing or installing. This bug can be closed, though.