Usernames not available on pre-login forms
Recently many sites have (for reasons I cannot fathom) introduced a pre-login form: ie a form that requires a username to be entered before an password text box is provided. This seems to be a trend and it is incredibly annoying.
The issue I have is that FF does not recognise the page/form as a login page and therefore does not provide a list of usernames for the domain in question.
Any advice or help would be very much appreciated.
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What page??? What OS? I just logged into Reddit and it required me to put in my username and then Firefox showed the drop down for the password. Seems like a good idea for security reasons( think about it). On most sites, if you just double click in the username box you will see username, password, and also the option to manage all your passwords. A perfect example is Amazon.com. Just going to the site and not clicking anything, it shows my usernames and the option to manage my passwords. Anyone with access to my desktop can easily access my account. see screenshot
The password manager in firefox doesn't show passwords when logging in. They are always obscurred. I presume the FF developers presume that your desktop is secure from others so they don't worry about it.
Windows 10 Loads of pages. Too many to mention. The password manager just does not kick in. I tought it was becuase the sites aren't flagging the textbox type but they are.
As you can see the pre-login does't activate the password manager. Once the username is in there (I have rubbed it out) then it does.
Firefox expects the username field to have type=text, when the type is something different like type=email then Firefox wont offer to fill the username as a suggestion. You can check the type attribute in the Inspector.
You can right-click and select "Inspect" to open the built-in Inspector with this element selected.
I am afraid that is wrong.
I would like to know what the trigger is. Does anybody know?
Hey Craig, I've been noticing this pre-login form as well but was wondering could you rattle off some more sites besides Sage.com you've seen this on? I know it's too many to list but if you can name the top 5 or top 10 sites you see this on we could check them & see if they are doing what Cor-el has found out.
If more popular sites are going to copy this extremely annoying trend, then the Firefox developers are going to have to create a special solution to detect these types of login pages and offer username completion on them. But I wonder if the other browsers have this same issue & if it's too challenging to pick a username from a list on the first page then autofill the password on the second page.
Unless I'm missing something Cor-el is wrong.
I have found one site that does it and it does work on and that is PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/signin
Othersites that have introduced it so far that I know of (and I login to all of the time are: Awin: https://ui.awin.com/idp/en/awin/login/prelogin?redirect=%2Flogin%3FnetworkGroup%3Dawin
I think google also works (as PayPal). Sage assurred me it had been tested but it simply does not work for me.
Can't think of any others at the moment but I will add more as I find them.
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