433637 - Omni Pass fingerprint reader auto-fill program does not recognize fields in Mozilla.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 275114

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tim]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5

Omni Pass is a program that comes with IBM/Lenovo laptops that manages auto-fill fields. When you try to set up a field that you want filled in, the entire window appears highlighted, and you cannot highlight only the specific field you want. This means that every time the page is open, omni pass tries to fill in the field (even if you're logged in). Quite annoying. Not sure if this is really a bug, but wasn't sure where else to report it.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

There is no standard way for fingerprint sensors and they all do some kind of
things to get the info they need. If it breaks it's never firefox fault because
we don't know how they do it. The software must be updated in that case

The HP Software for example injects itself in the mozilla process and causing
crashes, memory leaks and makes Firefox slow.

marking as dupe of bug 275114 to create a pseudo-standard API.