905983 - Firefox doesn't ask to save the password when password contains the character "#"

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Cyrille]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/28.0.1500.71 Chrome/28.0.1500.71 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Have a login/password remembered for a website
2. Go to that website and change your password that it contains a "#" character.
3. Disconnect from that website
4. Go to login page & enter your ID and the newly created password
5. Firefox does not ask you to remember the password

This problem occurres  on my 2 Linux box:
- Ubuntu 10.04 with Firefox 20.0
- Ubuntu 12.04 with Firefox 23.0



Actual results:

Firefox does not ask to remember the new password


Expected results:

Firefox should ask to remember the new password (replacing the actual remembered password with the new one).

Comment 1

[Cyrille]

Another similar bugs found on bugzilla.mozilla.org:
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=866890
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388777
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=883666
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749972

Comment 2

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

Which website?

Comment 3

[Cyrille]

(In reply to Robert Longson from comment #2)
> Which website?

For example: https://panel.tuxfamily.org

Comment 4

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Can you reproduce this in safe mode? https://support.mozilla.org/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode

Also, please provide debug logging using the instructions at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox:Password_Manager_Debugging

Comment 5

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

I can't reproduce this issue and can't think of any reason why this would happen with the current codebase.

Comment 6

[Cyrille]

Sorry, I've just make a "bad clic".
I could not close this bug (was resolved)... Sorry