297737 - Password Manager Loses Selection On Sort

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 318220

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Rishi Chopra]

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

After selecting a row in the password manager and then sorting the passwords
according to one of the headers (i.e. Site, Username, Password) the selection
(i.e. highlighted row) stays in the same place spatially instead of sticking to
the selected URL/username/password.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Select 'Tools'->'Options', then 'Privacy' and 'View Saved Passwords'.
2.  Highlight a row in the display.
3.  Sort the passwords by clicking on a header (Site, Username, or Password)

Actual Results:  
The 'selected' row happens to be whatever was in the same place before the sort
(i.e. fifth entry from the top)

Expected Results:  
The selection should stay constant (i.e. password for bugzilla.mozilla.org
should be highlighted both before and after sorting).

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Reproducible with Mozilla 1.8b1, Mozilla 1.8b2/20050613 and Deer Park a1.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Rishi Chopra]

Still there I think...

Comment 4

[zug_treno]

Yes, also reproducible with SeaMonkey 1.0a and Firefox 1.5b1.

Comment 6

[Raj Bhaskar]

I'm not sure that this bug is a dup of bug 318220.  That one is about the password manager not remembering which column it was last sorted by, while this one is saying that when you select a row and select by a different column, the viewport of the window doesn't move to track the selected row, but stays where it was.

I certainly see this behaviour in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5i SeaMonkey/1.1.12 although I don't know if XPFE uses the same password manager as Toolkit.