locked_user sundialsvc4 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I know this is not a strictly Perl-related question, but if any group of folks I know is most likely to have encountered it and resolved it, this would be that group.

The problem is Firefox’s Which password do you want to change? dialog box, which seems to be triggered when Firefox sees password input-fields in dialog boxes.   It prompts for a list of users and passwords that it thinks it has seen recently.   I am looking everywhere for any insights, pointers, etc. to how to make this dialog disappear, for good.

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Re: Suppressing Firefox "Confirm Password Change" dialog
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 24, 2011 at 21:48 UTC

    Tools->Options->Security->Passwords :: uncheck 'Remember passwords for sites'?

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      Clarification:   Is there anything that the server side can do, to prevent this dialog from appearing in the first place.   I will be happy to change the name of the POST-variable to pumpkin, say, instead of anything remotely resembling password, if it would thereby convince Firefox not to try to be so dammed clever.

      In other words ... what can I do, in terms of the nature of the POST exchange, to persuade our well-intentioned good friend Firefox:   “nothing to see here ... move along ... these aren’t the ’droids you’re looking for ...”

      I cannot reasonably change the settings of (no kidding...) four thousand client machines ... I can’t even tell any of these end-users what to do.   The only way I can address this problem is to fake-off Firefox, and I really, really need to find a way to do precisely that.   (Yesterday...)

        Hopefully not. It is after all a security setting. It would be a little pointless if every scam artist, hacker, and other assorted bad guy could bypass it to enable a drive by.

        Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
        "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
        In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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        What kind of page are you talking about here?

        From the description, you seem to be implying that it isn't a login screen or a user settings/configuration/password change page... but what is it exactly?

        Personally, and without any knowledge of how things actually work, I would expect that a password change dialog would be needed whenever *TWO* hidden-type fields are seen on the same form. I would expect to have to autofill an existing password whenever there is only a single hidden-type field.

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Re: Suppressing Firefox "Confirm Password Change" dialog
by Corion (Patriarch) on Aug 25, 2011 at 06:44 UTC
    I assume that Firefox does not care about the name of the field but its nature. If a form contains a field of type "password", Firefox will offer to remember it.
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Re: Suppressing Firefox "Confirm Password Change" dialog
by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Aug 25, 2011 at 18:37 UTC

    In HTML5, you can add autocomplete="off" either at the form or input tag level. If you can't use HTML5, you can still add autocomplete="off" to the input tag but it isn't guaranteed to be used by all browsers because it isn't in the spec prior to HTML5.

    See also: HTML5 <form> autocomplete Attribute

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Re: Suppressing Firefox "Confirm Password Change" dialog
by SuicideJunkie (Vicar) on Aug 24, 2011 at 21:50 UTC

    Probably not what you meant, but I go into tools->options->security and uncheck "remember passwords for sites"

    If I don't type them in myself on a regular basis, I can't remember them. :)

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