302185 - Can't disable saving of form information

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[Peter McGinley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

When I untick the box in options to disable the saving of form information, the
feature is re-enabled (box is ticked again) when I restart Firefox.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Untick "Save information I enter in web page forms and the Search Bar" checkbox.
2. Close Firefox down completely.
3. Restart Firefox and go re-check the option - the box is ticked again.

Actual Results:  
As described.

Expected Results:  
The software should have disabled the saving of information in web forms.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Are you using anything in user.js that would be overwriting this preference in
prefs.js each time you restart?

Comment 2

[Steve Reaser]

I'd like to confirm that this behavior is happening.

Standard 1.0.6 installation, plus the following extensions:
DOM inspector, Adblock, ImageZoom, Tabbrowser Prefs, miniT

Sorry I don't know enough to try to debug this further, but I'd be willing to
try any suggestions.

Comment 3

[Darren]

If you are using the google suggest extension (at least for Fx-1.5) then for some reason it will always reenable the 'save information I enter in forms...' field. I  don't see why they need it apart from snooping, but either way isn't this still a security loophole?

A user's preferences shouldn't be allowed to be changed silently by any extension. Give it [the extension] the ability to inform the user that it won't work without different preferences by all means, but don't do it unknown to the user. What's the point of a secure browser if addons can so easily breach that?

NB. I realise this isn't that serious a bug, but it has obvious potential to be.

Comment 4

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

WFM in FF3 RC1.