296551 - Feature request: Saving form data on select websites

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 385741

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Garrett Cooper]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

I was wondering if there was any way where someone could integrate a method of
allowing/blocking the saving of form information in Firefox/Mozilla in general
on some sites. The issue is that I would rather not like some information on
some forms (credit card, social security number, etc) to be retrievable by an
unauthorized user/script and I see that not having that sort of information down
is somewhat of a security issue in terms of identity theft, etc.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to website and enter in sensitive info.
2. Leave page.
3. Come back and info's still there.



Expected Results:  
Have a smarter means of limiting how and what information is saved by the forms
manager.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

You can always answer "No" or "never for this website" when it asks you to save
username/password...

Comment 2

[Garrett Cooper]

But this is specifically "Don't save my credit card number", type of thing. That
as it stands cannot be controlled from within Firefox and Mozilla; all that's
available is save and don't save info.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

This is an enhancement request and should not have expired.

Comment 6

[C Webb]

Yep, this is a problem that I've wondered about for a while now.  I guess I'm surprised it hasn't been addressed before now.

Consider this my vote for a new feature...

Thanks.

Comment 7

[Garrett Cooper]

If the component that controls form input is XForm, I'd be glad to work on a fix for this feature. My C++ skills have improved quite a bit since I last posted this feature request.

Thanks,
-Garrett