444333 - Password not saved for multiple login within same domain

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[tony]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

The password is not saved nor autofill for multiple login for login page within the same domain. In FF2, it works but not in FF3.

Example 1 - Same username in multiple login page within same domain
www.domain.com - user=admin ; pass=1234
www.domain.com/page - user=admin ; pass=4321
FF3 will only save the login as One User (admin) and each time the password is entered, it will replaced. FF2 will remember the page and saved the login info as Two Users (admin)

Example 2 - Auto-Fill on login text box malfunction for login page within same domain
www.domain.com - user=admin ; pass=1234
www.domain.com/page - user=dearest ; pass=4321
In this scenario, FF3 saves both login because of different username but it does not auto fill the text boxes. I have to double click on the username textbox to select the correct username to autofill the password. FF2 will autofill these info regardless of which login page I go within the same domain.

Wish this bug is fix ASAP

Thanks



Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Bug 263387 covers the issue of storing logins to particular paths within a site, instead of for the whole site.

In general, we do not want to store logins that differ only in the password, because the far more common use case is that a user has changed their password, and we don't want to make you guess which login has the right password stored with it.

Comment 2

[tony]

They why FF2 works in this way and not FF3

Please advise. Thanks

Comment 3

[tony]

I think you have misunderstood my meaning. Say I have 2 PHP scripts installed in one domain. These 2 scripts requires login. Example:
www.site.com/script1 and
www.site.com/script2

If both script username set as "User1" with different password OR different username and password for each login, FF2 will remember them and autofill the username and password regardless of whether the username is the same or not. However in FF3, the whole thing is different. It remembers only www.site.com and not /script1 and /script2. In this case, I will have to guess which username (user1) is for script1 and which is for script2.

Hope this explains well.

Thanks

Comment 4

[tony]

I put it as reopen and see what's your reply. Thanks

Comment 5

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Firefox 2 used the field names for matching logins, Firefox 3 does not. That may have caused the difference. This has been discussed in other bugs, it can cause problems for a few cases like this, but fixes other problems.

Comment 10

[Jayme Jeffman Filho]

I have been facing troubles on this bug because I have one email account at Gmail.com and another at Cpovo.net ( webmail.cpovo.net ). 
Both accounts are authenticated by Gmail and the way FireFox works do not allow me to save one password for each other. I do not want to exchange my username neither have the same password for both email accounts. Internet Explorer save the passwords in another way which allow me to save both as different passwords.
Why can't you exchange the key of the table for saving passwords ?