970268 - Can view password when The password field is inspected

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 933223

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[shashank.gaikaiwari]

Attachment: Example of how the password can be seen with the help of inspect element

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140127194636

Steps to reproduce:

Enter the username and password for any site or if you have earlier saved your password, then the username and password for the site are already printed automatically.
Right click on the password field and click on inspect element. Now in the input type replace the type as "text" instead of "password". 


Actual results:

This now clearly shows the entered password or any password that has been saved on the browser which is a security issue.


Expected results:

The browser should not allow the user to right click on the password field and alter the attributes of that tag.