317461 - Microsoft/DigitalPersona Fingerprint Reader stopped working with 1.5RC3

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ron Rusnak]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

The Microsoft/DigitalPersona fingerprint reader software no longer recogizes password authorization dialog boxes

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to site requiring password authorization dialog box
2.Place finger on fingerprint reader
3.

Actual Results:  
The finger print software does not recognize the dialog box as a password authorization.

Expected Results:  
The fingerprint reader software should have recognized the password dialog box and filled in the username field and password field.

The fingerprint reader software works properly in 1.0.7.

Comment 1

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

dup-a-lupin (half-dupe, imo, but close enough to keep it centralized)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 275114 ***

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 332536 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

This is a regression, so it shouldn't be marked as a dup of an oldish enhancement request (except perhaps by a module owner who has a good reason).  Reopening.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

There is no official API for fingerprint software and I don't know how they did FF working with it but it seems that it brolke but that is not our fault.

Comment 5

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

Attachment: Screenshot of DigitalPersona.com showing support for Firefox 3.0

Comment 6

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

changing to WFM because their site indicates it works for Firefox 3.0 now