695133 - if mouse hover - show password

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Andrew]

Attachment: In Windows 8 as example - 1

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Build ID: 20111011182523

Steps to reproduce:

Propose to build such functionality in default firefox.




Expected results:

Behavior can be done like this:

// ==UserScript==
// @name           Password Revealer
// @namespace      http://userscripts.org/users/23652
// @description    Shows passwords on mouse hover or focus
// @include        http://*
// @include        https://*
// @include        file:*
// @copyright      JoeSimmons
// @version        1.0.3
// @license        Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License
// ==/UserScript==

var show_only_on_click = false; //  Only show passwords when you click on the field

function text() {
this.type = "text";
}

function password() {
this.type = "password";
}

function addHandlers() {
var dp = document.evaluate("//input[@type='password']",document,null,6,null);
for(var i=dp.snapshotLength-1,DP; (DP=dp.snapshotItem(i)); i--) {
if(!show_only_on_click) {
DP.addEventListener("mouseover", text, false);
DP.addEventListener("mouseout", password, false);
} else {
DP.addEventListener("focus", text, false);
DP.addEventListener("blur", password, false);
}
}
}

addHandlers();

Comment 1

[Andrew]

Attachment: In Windows 8 as example - 2

Comment 2

[:aceman]

Wouldn't this be a security/privacy problem? Anybody walking along the PC could view passwords on your open sites and also on sites where the password manager prefills the passwords for you. Should FF ask for the master password first?

Comment 3

[Andrew]

Well, I still think that should be in unsafe places to work in private mode and not to leave the PC without locking it. And perhaps before you enter the password, it is necessary to verify the absence of extra eyes :)

>>Should FF ask for the master password first?
Not necessarily.


--
sorry for my language.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This has nothing to do with core form control layout.  It's a pure UI feature.