We're calling on all EU-based Mozillians with iOS or iPadOS devices to help us monitor Apple’s new browser choice screens. Join the effort to hold Big Tech to account!

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

username not autocompleted

  • 5 odgovori
  • 3 ima ovaj problem
  • 1 view
  • Posljednji odgovor poslao cor-el

more options

This issue has been occured for a while, I don't remember at which point it started but basically firefox will ask to save usernames and and passwords but when I got back to certain sites, only the password is automatically filled out. If I type in the username it doesn't offer to auto complete. I have tried the secure logon addon but that doesn't help (when I click the button it will only fill out the password but not the user).

I've double checked the saved logins and it is saving the user and password, its just not auto completing the username.

This issue has been occured for a while, I don't remember at which point it started but basically firefox will ask to save usernames and and passwords but when I got back to certain sites, only the password is automatically filled out. If I type in the username it doesn't offer to auto complete. I have tried the secure logon addon but that doesn't help (when I click the button it will only fill out the password but not the user). I've double checked the saved logins and it is saving the user and password, its just not auto completing the username.

All Replies (5)

more options

Try the Saved Password Editor extension.

It is possible that Firefox isn't detecting the user name field correctly and in that case you might have to use the Inspector to get the field name.

more options

Thanks after using that extension I noticed the login field name was dummy, and when I checked the website code it specifically said it was designed to trick firefox. With that said, even though it detects the proper username field it still doesn't auto populate it.

Izmjenjeno od strane ZenMasta

more options

Did you try to change the field(s) to make them point to the fields that are actually used to store the user name and password?

The SPE extension allows to edit all those fields. The only requirement is that the field has a name attribute.

more options

cor-el said

Did you try to change the field(s) to make them point to the fields that are actually used to store the user name and password? The SPE extension allows to edit all those fields. The only requirement is that the field has a name attribute.

Yeah, I replaced dummy in the username field with login[username] as seen in the source, but it still isn't filling in the username.

It's not a huge deal for me as I only notice this on a couple of sites. But it really annoys my mom, and I'd rather not keep hearing about it if you know what I mean haha.

more options

The screenshot still shows dummy as the user name as would be expected because Firefox selects by default the input text field directly before the password field as the user name field.

What happens if you change the dummy by login[username]?

You can try to temporarily delete the fake input field via the right-click context menu to see if that has effect.