311043 - We need to give the user an option whether to have Password Manager automatically fill in the password or not. The use of a specially assigned key would be useful.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 376668

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Sahil Sapre]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 (No IDN) Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 (No IDN) Firefox/1.4

Suppose a user has multiple accounts on a certain website. The Password Manager
automatically fills in the saved password, which could be a pain. It would be
nice to have a special key assigned to this task (like Opera uses Ctrl + Enter
for Wand) so as to make entering login information for multiple accounts and/or
multiple users easier. Obviously, Firefox uses Ctrl + Enter for automatically
entering www and .com before and after the keyword. But a specific key, doesn't
matter which, might be useful.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051003
Firefox/1.4.1 ID:2005100321

When there are multiple passwords on one site, I see a dropdown-list (after
clicking in the box).

Comment 2

[Sahil Sapre]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051003
> Firefox/1.4.1 ID:2005100321
> 
> When there are multiple passwords on one site, I see a dropdown-list (after
> clicking in the box).

Yes, but if the Password Manager has saved a certain username and password,
there's no list, if I'm correct. The default action of the Password Manager,
i.e. entering the saved info right into the fields, is what I'm questioning.(In
reply to comment #1)
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051003
> Firefox/1.4.1 ID:2005100321
> 
> When there are multiple passwords on one site, I see a dropdown-list (after
> clicking in the box).

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

(In reply to comment #2)
For me, Firefox shows a dropdownlist on sites where there are multiple passwords if:
- Autofill is enabled (Tools > Options > Privacy > Saved Forms > Save
information I enter in forms and in the Search Bar;
- the dropdownlist is not hidden by somes lines in userChrome.css.

Comment 4

[Adam Guthrie]

See also bug 222653.

Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 358423 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

*** Bug 358423 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[thE_iNviNciblE]

is this new feature possible in future versions?

it's really an enhancement :-)