558178 - Only show password capture dialog if we're reasonably sure the password was correct and the login was successful

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, enhancement, P2)

Description

[David Latapie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; fr; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; fr; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

With Google Chrome, the save password prompt only appears after a successful login, contrary to Firefox which make it appears ASAP. I prefer the Chrome way, my YMMV, that's why I ask for an option (about:config would suffice).

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[hexchain]

Agree. Asking to save password after successful login makes sense.

Firefox/16.0.1

Comment 2

[Chris Karlof [:ckarlof]]

The heuristics can be tricky here. One I've used in the past is to only show the capture dialog after the password field is no longer visible. If the login failed, the site usually keeps the login form open so the user can try again. Password change flows can sometimes be tricky though because sometimes on success, the site takes the user back to her "Account settings" where a password field may still be visible. However, if we're confident we're in a "login flow", this might be a decent heuristic. Even if we guess wrong, if the user can still summon the capture dialog by clicking on the password widget thingy next to the URL bar, that might be good enough.

Comment 4

[Chris Karlof [:ckarlof]]

Blocked by a technical and UX design.

Comment 9

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Lowering to P2 since it's not as important as making logins save/fill at all.