271210 - Mozilla 1.7.3 + XP_HOME: Autofill XP-Userdata in "username"/"password"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[Markus Gruen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

Mozilla does auto-fillin form fields named "username" / "password" (my case:
german version "benutzername" / "passwort") under Windows XP home edition.

This problem only occurs with Windows XP home edition, not unter NT/2000/XPpro.
First time I thought it was the users fault, activating the form manager f.e.
But the first call of a test html document with a random filename on the same
server containing a simple form (as quoted above) showed the same effect: the
field "username" ("benutzername") contained the users' windows username, the
"password" ("passwort") fields contained something different.

Even setting the value="TEST" item didnt't made it better! The phrase TEST was
shown for at last half a second, then the userdata is inserted.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. XP_Home and current Mozilla
2. Call above stated URL
3. Take a look

Actual Results:  
The XP-Userdata should be inserted into these fields.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6)
Gecko/20041203 Firefox/1.0+.  Going to http://www.ewiz.de/test.html does not
show my Windows XP Home username and password.  I don't have a Windows password
set, though.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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