478234 - Firefox is unable to pass stored credentials to the mini login form when you have several user accounts

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, defect)

Description

[Frédéric Buclin]

Till now, when you started typing your login name, Firefox was able to autocomplete the form for you (both login and password). This still happens with the full login page, but this is broken with the mini login form in the page header and footer. No idea if that's because they share common names and IDs (see bug 478232). If you have only one account, Firefox correctly fills the login form, in both the header and footer, so maybe that's a separate issue.

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

(In reply to comment #0)
> If you have only one account, Firefox correctly fills the
> login form, in both the header and footer, so maybe that's a separate issue.

  Yeah, that was working fine for me, so I didn't notice. Honestly, that makes this sound almost like a bug in Firefox, though.

Comment 2

[Guy Pyrzak]

Attachment: V1

this just removes the bottom login and makes it so there is only one login on the page.

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

Comment on attachment 362069 [details] [diff] [review]
V1

This doesn't fix anything. The password field remains empty. I'm pretty sure this is because the password field is of type "text" instead of "password".

Comment 4

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (From update of attachment 362069 [details] [diff] [review])
> I'm pretty sure this is because the password field is of type "text" instead 
> of "password".

  No, that has nothing to do with it, because it works fine when there's only one stored login.

Comment 5

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Probably the solution to this and bug 479197 is to have a Bugzilla_password_dummy field that's a text field, and when focusing *either* the login box or the password box, it hides itself and shows the Bugzilla_password box.

Comment 6

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

I'm going to take this over since Guy is gone for two weeks.

Comment 7

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Okay, I've figured out what the problem is, and fixing bug 479197 will also fix this bug.

Comment 8

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

For reference, the problem was that the password box already had the word "password" in it, and it wasn't a password-type field, when the login field was autocompleted, so Firefox wouldn't autocomplete the password.

Comment 9

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Fixed by blocker.

Comment 10

[Frédéric Buclin]

(In reply to comment #9)
> Fixed by blocker.

Yes, confirmed -> VERIFIED.