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Password Manager Improvements in Firefox 68

Mon, 05/13/2019 - 00:25 — matthew

Highlights

Bug 1287202 - Prompt to save logins upon page navigation if there are password fields present in a <form>
- This fixes many websites that use <form> but don't use submit buttons and instead use JS for submission.
Bug 1526522 - Provide visual effects on password field autocomplete
Bug 1543449 - Don't prompt to save single-character passwords.

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Password Manager Improvements in Firefox 67

Mon, 05/06/2019 - 02:57 — matthew

There have been many improvements to the password manager in Firefox and some of them may take a while to be noticed so I thought I would highlight some of the user-facing ones in version 67…

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Filling saved HTTP logins over HTTPS for the same domain

Wed, 08/03/2016 - 15:32 — matthew

HTTPS password Thanks to initiatives like Let's Encrypt (co-founded by Mozilla), adoption of HTTPS has been increasing making the web more secure. Firefox has adapted its Login Manager to make this transition smooth for users.