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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.

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…

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.

A summary of improvements made to Firefox's password manager in the second quarter of 2015.

A summary of improvements made to Firefox's password manager in the first quarter of 2015.