312877 - Password Manager fills in readonly input fields

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 361517

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[franz.ose]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051014 Firefox/1.4.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051014 Firefox/1.4.1

The Password Manager fills in stored data, even if the input fields are set to
"readonly" (attribute readonly="readonly" in HTML).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Use the testcase at http://team-ziss.net/other/~anim/fx-readonly/test1.php, or
1. Make a login form, and fill in any data
3. Submit and let the password manager store the data
2. Change any field to "readonly"
4. Visit the site again

Actual Results:  
The stored username is filled in, even though the input field is set to "readonly"

Expected Results:  
When a input field is set to "readonly" the Password Manager should not fill in
the stored data.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Please see bug 294458 comment 2 for explanation.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 229762 ***

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 361517 ***