288382 - remember password only for proxy

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Mikel Ward]

I would like Firefox to remember my HTTP proxy authentication password but not
prompt to remember passwords on web sites for which I've not already stored a
password, basically because I find the "Yes/Never For This Site/No" dialog box
annoying.

If I uncheck the master "remember passwords" preference, it stops the previously
stored values from being automatically entered in the proxy authentication
dialog, so this is not what I want.

Features that could achieve what I want:
- have separate preferences for web sites and proxy server passwords
- allow disabling of remembering passwords for sites not already in the password
manager
- allow entering of a wildcard for never remember password sites

Are any of these planned?

Comment 1

[David P James]

Mass edit: Changing QA to default QA Contact

Comment 2

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Checked while verifying other proxy auth changes, this WFM now.

You'll need to have "remember passwords" enabled the first time you authenticate to a proxy (so you get prompted to save the proxy login), but then you can disable. Future proxy prompts will still be autofilled.