361518 - login-name form entry is not remembered in ff 2.0

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[r0polach]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

I have been using many years public e-mail mail.atlas.cz
using firefox 1.x, 1.5.x without any problems, with
login form entries (login name and password) remembered by ff.

But with upgrade to firefox 2.0, it does not fill login name entry
on
 https://mail.atlas.cz/login.aspx
or
 http://mail.atlas.cz/login.aspx

It only fills (harwired) string "@atlas.cz".
But when I fill login name manually (like "[e-mail]"),
it fills the saved password automatically.

Resetting forms cache does not help.
No other form I have seen does have this problem.
It is reproducible allways from ff2/WindowsXP and ff2/Linux.
Downgrade to ff 1.5.0.8 helps :-/


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
For reproducing this info clould be needed:
The login page is in the Czech language,
"Uzivatelske jmeno" means "Login name",
"Heslo" means "Password",
"natrvalo" means "keep me logged permanently".

Comment 1

[r0polach]

Oh, by
 "Resetting forms cache does not help."
I mean
 "Resetting forms cache and saving the login info
  with ff again does not help."

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Probably caused by the fix of Bug 270558, so I'm afraid this is WONTFIX or INVALID.

Comment 3

[r0polach]

so it would be nice to have this feature (bug 270558)
only optional, e.g. if password manager asks if password
should be remembered, then user can specify, what fields
of the form she/he want to remember? I understand that
the best way to solve this is to change the site's code,
but unfortunately I have problems talking to mail.atlas.cz
customer service - they don't know what firefox is at all ;-(

Comment 4

[u279076]

This is an issue with the way the site is coded.  Looking at the source code, this is the tagline for the username control:
<input value="@atlas.cz" ... />

This will always put "@atlas.cz" in the form field over anything else.

Comment 5

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

There's no way I can see to make this case work without breaking other cases. Trying to figure out what the site is trying to do when there's an unknown username (value) prefilled is bound to work inconsistently.