Bug updated with original wireframes (that pin the error to the field). More 
concerning to me is this more recent Change Password bug in Firefox Desktop: 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1081158

Ryan Feeley
UX, Cloud Services
Mozilla UX
IRC: rfeeley

On Nov 3, 2014, at 1:00 PM, Chris Karlof <[email protected]> wrote:

> https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-content-server/issues/1828
> 
> -chris
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 2, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Gavin Sharp <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Forwarding from firefox-dev:
>> 
>> 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Steve Jones <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Cc: 
>> Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 07:31:30 -0000
>> Subject: Problem with changing password for Firefox account
>> 
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> I have a firefox account, and this morning, I tried to change my password
>> using the website https://accounts.firefox.com/settings
>> 
>> This has three links viz. Change password, Delete account & Sign out.
>> 
>> Upon clicking on the Change password link, a new page appeared
>> containing two fields, one labelled old password, and one labelled
>> new password, plus a confirm button.  I entered my old password
>> in the first field, and then the new password in the second field,
>> followed by clicking on the confirm button.  The webpage then came
>> up with an incorrect password message.
>> 
>> I think the above webpage has a bug in it; normally, on all websites
>> that I am familiar with which allow changing of passwords, they all
>> have three fields, one for the old password, one for the new password
>> and a third for confirming the new password; the above webpage lacks
>> the last field.
>> 
>> After playing around with things, I went to the Firefox account sign in
>> page https://accounts.firefox.com/signin, and clicked on the forgot
>> password link.  Upon receiving a reset password email from firefox,
>> this took me to a reset password, and which contained the confirm
>> new password field (as one would expect).  So, there is a get-around to
>> the problem of changing my password, but clicking on the forgot
>> password link seems a pretty stupid way of doing it…
>> 
>> Could someone please look into this problem and fix it.
>> 
>> Incidentally, while I am here, I had a hell of a job contacting firefox
>> to report this problem.  I tried clicking on the contact us link on the
>> firefox help page, and found this to be a circumlocution office (for
>> those who know their Dickens): there is no straightforward way of
>> reporting problems.  Perhaps you could fix this too…
>> 
>> Steve Jones, a somewhat bemused firefox user
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