528213 - Password is erased/deleted if pasted before pasting the username upon login

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Sean Craig]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

In Gmail and at least one other website 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
0. These steps work when the username/password are not already stored in Firefox.
1. Copy/paste password into password field.
2. Copy/paste username into username field.
3. Click login
Actual Results:  
Form posts without password--password is erased.

Expected Results:  
Form should post with password resulting in successful login.

I have only been able to successfully test this in Firefox 3.5.* on Windows XP on two computers. This bug did not appear to be present in Firefox 3.0.* on Windows Vista.

Have not tested on any other systems.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.13 or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles

You can also try to reproduce in Firefox 4 Beta 8 or later, there are many improvements in the new version, http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Comment 2

[Sean Craig]

Seems to be fixed in Firefox 3.6.13. Closing RESOLVED - WORKSFORME.