317951 - Password Manager option to obscure/mask username

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Martin Meyer]

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

Some websites (usually banks) use account numbers, social security numbers, or email addresses as their usernames.  I have a specific instance of each of these myself: a credit card bank, my primary bank, and PayPal.  I would prefer that the usernames for these sites not be shown back when someone loads the page.

Although email isn't as important to mask, it seems like any username consisting of all numbers should be easy to identify and mask from the user.  This might be something to offer as an option in the Privacy section on the Passwords tab.  In fact, it might be good to offer masking just some of them or, optionally, all of them.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

You can mostly avoid this by setting a master password. Usernames are encrypted (along with the passwords), and so usernames can only be seen after you've entered the master password.

Beyond that, it seems unlikely that one could reasonably hide usernames without crippling usability for normal logins, especially for people with multiple accounts to select from.