326173 - Make "prefs / privacy / passwords" consistent with Firefox

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Kai Engert (:KaiE:)]

When comparing the pref panels "privacy / passwords" in Firefox and Thunderbird, it is confusing that both panels look mostly identical, but both contain one checkbox (only), with different wording, which indeed have different meaning.

Mozilla/SeaMonkey have two checkboxes, which both make sense for both Firefox and Seamonkey.

Firefox has a checkbox to toggle "remember passwords".
Thunderbird has a checkbox to toggle "use encryption when storing passwords".

This bug suggests that both pref panels should be consistent.


The checkbox "remember passwords" should be added to Thunderbird.

Comment 1

[Kai Engert (:KaiE:)]

See also bug 326172 for the corresponding change to Firefox.

Comment 2

[Kai Engert (:KaiE:)]

Attachment: Thunderbird screenshot: Privacy / Passwords pref panel

Comment 3

[Kai Engert (:KaiE:)]

Attachment: Firefox screenshot: Privacy / Passwords pref panel

Comment 4

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Bryan, thoughts?

Comment 5

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

Probably a good start, however bug 448716 is suggesting moving toward a greater overhaul of this page so I'm not sure which to get done first.  Likely this is an easy initial win to make happen.

Comment 6

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Those screenshots are old and I believe Bug 239131 already has some synchronisation for this (due to the password manager migration).

Though at the moment we have a mismatch between where the two sets of prefs reside.

Comment 7

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Blake: the only bit left on this bug would be to add a remember passwords button.

I'm not sure if we really need to do that, as we don't currently do separate dialogs offering to save passwords, we only have a checkbox displayed. The back-end pref is still respected though.

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Comment 7 is still accurate, so the differences are reasonable. Like bug 448716 I think we can close this.