858415 - Web apps don't know your password, even if Firefox does

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 784108

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Web Apps (PWAs), defect)

Description

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Stopped short at Twitter login screen, despite having just signed in to mobile Twitter in Aurora. Massive impediment to getting started.

Comment 1

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Actually, I think this is correct behavior. We shouldn't share cookies, stored passwords, etc across different app contexts. This includes the differentiation between the browser itself, app 1, app 2, etc.

FWIW, this is what we do on FF OS.

Mark - what do you think?

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Correct. We do not share profiles. Each web app has it's own profile. We toyed with the idea of pre-loading the password DB with any passwords for the webapp's domain, but that only works on first run, any passwords setup after that will not be copied. Any changes to the password in Firefox will not be propagated.

I would push back on "massive". It's what a native app would do too.

Comment 3

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Dupe of bug 784108?

Comment 4

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

(In reply to Aaron Train [:aaronmt] from comment #3)
> Dupe of bug 784108?

Yup.

Comment 5

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

(In reply to Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) from comment #2)

> I would push back on "massive". It's what a native app would do too.

Sure, but a native app doesn't call itself a "web app" and let you install it right from a screen in which you were just signed in to something that looks absolutely identical :D