Closed Bug 556216 Opened 14 years ago Closed 10 years ago

login credentials are not filled automatically if initial login value is supplied by the website

Categories

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

1.9.1 Branch
x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 229762

People

(Reporter: lmironov, Unassigned)

References

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Details

(Whiteboard: dupeme)

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100205 SeaMonkey/2.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100205 SeaMonkey/2.0.3

When a website provides initial values for login credentials seamonkey won't fill in values stored in password manager until you start typing in the username field. This is wrong, password manager should always override initial values provided by the website without requiring user action as in vast majority of cases they are useless defaults. Even in the obscure cases when the website is smart enough to prefill login credentials from cookies or some other local storage password manager still should be trusted to do a better job.

Reproducible: Always
Whiteboard: dupeme
Version: unspecified → SeaMonkey 2.0 Branch
Duplicate of Toolkit bug 360064? Bug 112260 seems to be the opposite of this bug.
We are using the toolkit login manager these days.
Component: Passwords & Permissions → Password Manager
Product: SeaMonkey → Toolkit
QA Contact: privacy → password.manager
Version: SeaMonkey 2.0 Branch → 1.9.1 Branch
Blocks: 533065
No longer blocks: 533065
This has worked in the toolkit login manager for a long time if the username matches (bug 229762) but it'll intentionally not clobber existing values (a different username) due to bug 270558.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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