Closed Bug 494418 Opened 16 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Firefox should remember saved login info for a domain with and without the www prefix automatically

Categories

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: geeknik, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1pre) Gecko/20090521 Shiretoko/3.5pre Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1pre) Gecko/20090521 Shiretoko/3.5pre When you save login info for www.domain.com in Firefox, Firefox doesn't recognize that domain.com is the same site and as such, there is no saved login information when I try to login to domain.com, so I have to save the password twice. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Firefox 2. Log in and save the login info for www.domain.com 3. Visit domain.com w/o the www prefix. Actual Results: Firefox doesn't have a password saved for the domain.com w/o the www prefix. Expected Results: Firefox's password manager should be able to tell that www.domain.com and domain.com are the same site.
+1 Ok, here is the problem. In theory domain.com w/o the www prefix are not always the same site. www can, like any subdoman, point to some other place. But i find this annoying to, i would prefer a preference that allow you to: 1) access the password for both www.domain.com and domain.com. 2) access the password for both http://www.domain.com and https://www.domain.com. Some times it takes me 4 try to get it right with www and https to auto-fil the pass. A preference in the password manager, site by site or a global setting would just be so useful. :) // Pontus Thor
I know that there are some extensions that provide this capability, so I'm changing the bug importance to enhancement. Not sure where this should actually go, so leaving in Firefox:General for now. I expect a WONTFIX due to the availability of extension that provide the functionality, however, I believe this should be built into the browser. 99% of the time, http://www.domain.com is the same as http://domain.com.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows XP → All
Hardware: x86 → All
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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