Closed Bug 663403 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

Passwords are not saved, pw save dialog does not appear

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

3.6 Branch
x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 425145

People

(Reporter: steevo, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

I have been noticing this more and more lately.  It's hard to believe I am the only one noticing this issue.  

The pw save dialog does not appear.  I realize some websites in a misguided attempt to increase security have done something to cause this in some cases, but the test site, I can't imagine why they would.  

However, on the test case I tried the remember password bookmarklet from squarefree.com on it and got this response: 

"Removed autocomplete=off from 2 forms and from 0 form elements, and removed onsubmit from 0 forms. After you type your password and submit the form, the browser will offer to remember your password."

After which the pw is saved. The bookmarklet works in this case but certainly not all. 

Now let me just say I have seen this kind of stuff over and over lately, more and more as time goes on.  It started out on banks and financial sites but it's grown now to more and more.  And in some cases it just makes no sense. 

In my opinion I should be the one to decide if my browser on my computer in my private office saves a particular pw or not.  Certainly not some web developer.  

Firefox should *always* offer to save passwords if I have configured it to and should *always* override what any web developer does to prevent it.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to test site
2. Enter any username and pw in the box. 
3. Browser does not offer to save the pw.  
4. My pw save exception list is blank so that's not the problem. 

Actual Results:  
With a valid login I am logged in immediately.  With random credentials the site says "Username and/or password are incorrect".  But the browser does not offer to save the pw.  

Using the save password bookmarklet rectifies the problem in this case but not all. That is not a good solution because of this. 

Expected Results:  
Browser should offer to save the password. 

As I said this is showing up more and more and it seems likely that in at least some cases this behavior is intentional on the part of the web developer, they deliberately disabled pw saving in browsers.  

But this should be overridden by my settings.
Version: unspecified → 3.6 Branch
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
V.Duplicate
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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