352239 - Password manager overwrites password without prompting

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 221634

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[webmaster]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6

When entering a different password for a previously saved username, there's no
prompt to overwrite/remember the new password. In my case, I thought I knew the
password and typed it in before the autofill. I was wrong, and the old password's gone. :D

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Save a password.
2. Re-log, and put in a different password like a moron.
3. Observe the incorrect password now saved by the pw manager.



Expected Results:  
Prompt with the original "Remember password?" dialog, or better yet create a new "Overwrite previous password?" dialog.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

This is basically fixed by bug 221634 which prevents this scenario from happening by filling in the password form as early as possible.

With that bug fixed, the cases where you'd see this bug are few and far between. Why would a user see a password and username field filled in and decide to change it instead of just hitting submit? Not very often.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 221634 ***