414124 - Remember Password does not work if target page contains autoplaying Flash video

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[FirasE]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008012504 Minefield/3.0b3pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008012504 Minefield/3.0b3pre

If you go to a page that uses http authentication and you enter the correct login info, and on the destination page hit Remember password, the Remember password "section" won't go away and the password won't be remembered if the page contains an auto playing flash video.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter a url for an authent. required page that has a flash video on it that does Firefox does not know the login/pw for
2. Enter your login info and hit OK
3. Try to hit Remember Password
Actual Results:  
Remember password section does not vanish and password is not remembered.

Expected Results:  
Password section should disappear and pw should be stored.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

Knowing what page would be a great help.

Comment 2

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Need a testcase, or at least output from http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox:Password_Manager_Debugging