592640 - Fill form fields by Bookmark Manager

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Graveyard :: Account Manager, enhancement)

Description

[arcadius]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8

Let's consider a rather typical situation: user has several "accounts" in some protected area on the Web and needs to enter several credentials on the login page. F.e. I'm a web developer & I host several domains on one hosting.
Every time I go to hosting's login page (or to the login page of hosting's phpMyAdmin, etc.) I must select login manually (Form History Control shows dropdown list in "Login" field).
It's not so handy as it might be. I cannot create one bookmark to one account, and one to another.

The suggestion is to support "binding" a group of field values to bookmark.
When bookmark is created all filled fields (except passwords) are stored along with URL. When bookmark is loaded the stored fields are filled, then Form History Control tries to fill password fields in compliance with already filled ones.

The suggested feature gives to Firefox additional flexibility and would be useful not only in authentication issues.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[arcadius]

Correction: not "Form History Control", but "Password Manager".

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

I think this is more a request for the Account Manager component

Comment 3

[arcadius]

One possible solution: let's support setting field values in URLs. F.e.:
http://some.site.com/some/path/filename#bookmark?prm=value&&fld_name1=fld_value1&&fld_name2=fld_value2
Substring "&&fld_name1=fld_value1&&fld_name2=fld_value2" is not GET-params, but instruction for browser to fill fields fld_name1 & fld_name2 with values fld_value1 & fld_value2.
If so, current request is for Core rather than for Account Manager.

Comment 4

[Dan Mills [:thunder]]

We're not planning on implementing something like this, though it could be a fine idea for an addon.