409922 - Add right click to password fields to edit password options

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Zac Spitzer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11

For example, once "never for this site" has been clicked, you should be able to right click on a password field and undo that preference. 

Undoing that action is way too long a path via the interface under options

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

I think this is WONTFIX for two reasons: 1 - Undoing "never for this site" isn't a very common operation, so it's not appropriate for a context menu. 2 - The context menu doesn't seem like an expected (and thus discoverable) location for controlling if a login is saved.

You're right that the current UI could be improved, though. One approach we were considering looks like this:

http://people.mozilla.com/~madhava/files/favicon/mockups_2007-07-27/fullmenu_option1.png

Comment 2

[Zac Spitzer]

that looks like a good place for it, something like "Remember Passwords on this Site"

tho i do think it's probably a more common frustration that you imagine... most users would just give up...

but at the same time, the password manager is intrinsically linked to password fields