96131 - Stop button disables password filling in for current page

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Passwords & Permissions, defect)

Description

[Robin Green]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010817
BuildID:    2001082012

Sometimes the bugzilla login page takes a long time to load. If I press stop
before it's finished, my password is not filled in by password manager.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Do something which requires login to mozilla.
2. Press stop button before the login page fully loads.

Actual Results:  Nothing.

Expected Results:  Should fill in the form. This used to happen when I pressed stop.

Comment 1

[Stephen P. Morse]

That is correct.  See bug 69039.  Unfortunately we can't have it both ways.

Comment 2

[Stephen P. Morse]

*** Bug 105415 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Terri Preston]

Agreed, marking verified

Comment 4

[Stephen P. Morse]

*** Bug 122878 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Reopening. This is a perfectly valid suggestion. At most, it's wontfix.

I don't think it's either. The bug cited as reason is only about the "select
user" dialog box. There is no reason to disable a single username/password
combination. Also, there could be a menu item similar to Prefill Form, or even a
button in the page next to the submit button, which allows to fill out the the
password in such situations.
This would be esp. important for pages, which takes ages to load (as in 1
minute) "completely", because some images from another server time out.

Comment 6

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

confirm.

Comment 7

[Stephen P. Morse]

So you are saying that if the user aborts page loading and there is a single 
login saved for that page it should get filled in.  But if there is more than 
one saved login then no prefill occurs.  That inconsistent.  Marking as 
wont-fix.

Comment 8

[Raj Bhaskar]

There has to be a way around this.  If nothing else, maybe a (hidden) pref could
be added to let the user choose which behaviour to implement.  Personally, I'm
willing to put up with bug 69039 rather than lose the autofill.  This is
especially irritating if pages *do* take a long time to load (eg over dial-up,
or as has been pointed out, images from a server that timeout).

Comment 9

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Esp. important when the user relies on Mozilla to remember the password. He'd
have to lookup the passwort in his database then - time-intensive.

Comment 10

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

> That inconsistent.

Better inconsistent in some edge-cases than annoying IMHO.