305018 - [Mac] "Remember password" dialog should focus "Remember" by default

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

On Mac OS X, many dialogs have a different focused button than the default. This
allows the user to press enter for one action or space for another. Right now
Firefox has 3 keyboard inputs (Enter/Space/Esc) triggering the same thing - "Not
Now" [1].

For comparison, Safari's remember password dialog is [2]..

(Never for this Website)      (Not Now) (Yes)

Where "Yes" is shaded blue/default and "Never" has a blue focus outline. (Note:
Pressing esc doesn't do anything.)

[1] http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/password-after.png
[2] http://files.agadak.net/screenShots/passwordSafari.png

Comment 1

[Martin Novak]

*** Bug 309969 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Marking WONTFIX for a few reasons...

1) FF2 has shipped, so we have an established behavior that we shouldn't change without a good reason to.

2) I believe having "Not Now" be the default choice/focus was a deliberate decision, so that users don't accidently save passwords unless they really mean to. The typical scenario is an average user, who is now well trained to automatically click "ok" / press enter to make annoying popups go away, doing so on a shared or public-access computer. 

1 and 2 also combine, since we're now trained FF users to just do the default action to make the dialog harmlessly go away.