Re^2: Suppressing Firefox "Confirm Password Change" dialog

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...)

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Re^3: Suppressing Firefox "Confirm Password Change" dialog by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 24, 2011 at 23:13 UTC
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.	[reply]
Re^3: Suppressing Firefox "Confirm Password Change" dialog by SuicideJunkie (Vicar) on Aug 25, 2011 at 15:15 UTC
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.	[reply]