301396 - Password manager enhancement - should offer to save password *after* successful login

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 181816

(SeaMonkey :: Passwords & Permissions, enhancement)

Description

[Richard Neill]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511

The password-storing process could be enhanced by slightly re-ordering the actions.

Currently, the process for storing a new password is thus:

--------------------

1)I open window with a form in it

2)I enter the username/password in the form

3)I click on submit

4)Password manager pops up a dialog box asking if it should remember the login
and password for this site.

5)I say yes.

6)The form is submitted to the site, and the new page is loaded

7)Hopefully, I am now logged in to the site.

--------------

However, if the username/password pair is wrong, I will only find out about it
at step (7). By this time, I have already told the password manager that it is
correct at step (5). I'd then have to manually find and delete the erroneous
password.

I think it would be more useful if step (4) took place *after* step (6). That
way, I know for certain that the password is correct before I tell mozilla to
save it.

This arises when either typing in a password, or when trying to remember a
password, and having to guess at several.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

firefox version is bug 226735

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 181816 ***