287238 - Gmail "Don't ask for my password for 2 weeks" broken on Firefox

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[Joachim Noreiko]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

Gmail login page has a check box "Don't ask for my password for 2 weeks."
If checked on login, subsequent loads of this page have the username and
password already filled in.
This works as expected on Mozilla Suite.
This does not work on Firefox (0.9, 1.0, 1.0.1, on both Windows and OS X).
Form manager remembers my username (ie, if I begin to type it in, a drop-down
prompts the full name), but the gmail feature is not working.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log into gmail and enable the checkbox
2. Log out.
3. Try to log in again later

Actual Results:  
Form elements empty

Expected Results:  
My username and password (as ***) should be in the form.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

This is done on purpose, they have autocomplete="off"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 256168 ***

Comment 2

[Joachim Noreiko]

So how does it work in Mozilla suite?
I disagree that this is a dupe of bug 256168 -- gmail is nowhere listed in my
Mozilla suite password manager list, but it works as expected. I do not think
gmail's stored password system involves password manager at all.

Comment 3

[José Jeria]

What suite version are  you using?

Comment 4

[Joachim Noreiko]

Right now, 1.7.6, but this has worked fine on Mozilla Suite since I got a gmail
accoun in Jun 2004.

Comment 5

[José Jeria]

Reason I ask is because I see the same behaviour as  you when i logout, the form
is not prefilled, but it is on trunk. Since the field has autocomplete="off", it
shoulnd remember. So this is correct behavior on 1.0.1, not on trunk though.

Feel free to reopen if you feel that this is not a duplicate

Comment 6

[Joachim Noreiko]

Going by comment #2 of Bug 256168, this is a cookie problem -- that bug is about
autocomplete.
It's still happening with Firefox 1.0.4, on a number of different installations.
Reopening.

Comment 7

[José Jeria]

Joachim, did you test this with a trunk build? If not, please do. 
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 8

[Joachim Noreiko]

Apologies -- I hadn't.
But I just have, and I still get the bug with the latest build.

Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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