555420 - Remember Password Pop up at the top should not come if the login Fails and should update auto

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[ravi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2 GTB6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2 GTB6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Issue 1:

Currently Mozilla pops up the "Remember Password..." at the top even if the login fails. But I would like this popup to be appear only when the Login Success.

Issue 2:
Say for example if i clicked on remember password on site which i logged in successfully, and the user changes his password manually or expired.

When he launches the same site again, the browser popup with remembered user/password, but as its older password the login fails. So user re-enter the same user-id and the new password, this time the login successful. In this Case the browser has to have capability to update its existing entries.

This is very Generic issue irrespective of sites.





Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
For Issue 1:
1.Launch a site ex: linkedInn or gmail.com
2.enter Correct username and wrong password.
3.Click Login
4. You will see a popup on top as soon as you click login/send/submit.

For Issue 2:
1.Launch a site ex: linkedInn or gmail.com
2.enter Correct username and correct password.
3.Click Login
4. You will see a popup on top as soon as you click login/send/submit.
5. Click on Remember password.
6. change your password and apply.
7. close the browser and relaunch. [just to avoid automatically login for changed passwod]
8. launch the site again, You will see that remembered user and password already populated in to the feilds.
9. when you click on login it fails to login since you have changed the password.
10. Now enter the new password and login.this logins fine,
11. But this will not update the existing entry for the same user of same site.
12. you can verify this launching the browser and try login.


Expected Results:  
Remember password should have capability to handle authentication state success or failure and update existing password when user successfully logged in.

Comment 1

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Happens on Mac, too. The "Remember Password" (or update) dialog will pop up on submission, not on completion, which is a UX papercut -- you don't know until later if you got the password right, so you don't know whether to save it.

Comment 2

[Gaetano Giunta]

I think this bug could be closed...

1. it is most likely hard for FF to tell if a login has succeeded or not. There is no html/http standard to signal that in a foolproof way... So it is impossible to 'only show the remember-pwd dialog if login succeded'

2. since the 'remember-pwd dialog' dialog has been moved to popping out from above the web page, its is now persistent from the login-form-page to the login-succeeded page (or its login-failed equivalent). All the users have to do is be a bit patient before hitting the 'save' button.

...maybe the UX improvement could be to wait for the form-submission to be fully finished and the page to be reloaded before activating the 'save' button in the remember-pwd dialog - but I am not sure how easy that would be to implement for js-based login forms...