426789 - meebo.com - should update usage of globalStorage for Gecko 1.9

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Kai Moonbourn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032619 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032619 Firefox/3.0b5

I have noticed this in different Firefox builds at different times, but since it is usually intermittent, I have not bothered reporting it; however, this time, it is consistent: on my system, if I log into www.meebo.com, I could (on 3.0b4 and previous versions) check "remember me" and when I returned to the web page, my login ID and password would already be filled in. However, in 3.0b5, the password field remains blank; I have tried re-logging in repeatedly, but every time my login info is incompletely filled out when I return to meebo.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login to www.meebo.com (with a meebo account), with password save checkbox checked (disable saving forms & passwords)
2. Close browser
3. Revisit www.meebo.com; the meebo login and passwords should both be filled in, but the password is not.
Actual Results:  
Revisit www.meebo.com; the meebo login and passwords should both be filled in, but the password is not.

Expected Results:  
The password field should be filled.

Comment 1

[Sylvain Pasche]

Maybe you have logged with more than one username/password pair to that site? If you have more that one saved password, Firefox will not automatically fill the form (but it will do autocompletion if you start typing your username).

You can check if you have multiple username/password saved on that site in the the Saved Passwords window: Page Info > Security > View Saved Passwords.

Comment 2

[Lucas Malor (mail: c6kfnkn2uc AT snkmail DOT c0m)]

The meebo cookie doesn't save your password. Probably you notices that IE7 save the password, but if you delete all your passwords in IE7 and disable Persistence of Data in Options -> Protection -> Internet -> Personalized Level, you'll see the password will not be saved any more.

So the bug is another: Firefox (2 and 3) _password manager_ doesn't work at http://www.meebo.com/

Comment 3

[Kai Moonbourn]

No, I don't use the password manager. Period.

The cookie used to retain the password, and now it does not. It is possible Meebo revised their login cookie code at the same time I upgraded Firefox, but that strikes me as a vastly unlikely coincidence.

Comment 4

[Sylvain Pasche]

Regression range:
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?treeid=default&module=PhoenixTinderbox&branch=HEAD&branchtype=match&dir=&file=&filetype=match&who=&whotype=match&sortby=Date&hours=2&date=explicit&mindate=2008-03-18+00%3A00&maxdate=2008-03-19+00%3A00&cvsroot=%2Fcvsroot

->bug 407839

meebo uses DOM Storage for remembering the user password. They should update the way they use the globalStorage object to be compatible with the changes introduced in bug 407839 (which are implemented in Firefox 3). More information there: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:Storage#globalStorage 

Comment 5

[Sylvain Pasche]

I sent a mail to [e-mail] to inform them about it.

Comment 6

[Kai Moonbourn]

That explains it, thanks for helping ID the issue.

Comment 7

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Meebo was bought by Google and no longer exists. Closing.