> There is a hardcoded rule to disable password saving for about:accounts. It’s not because we don’t want the user to save her password in the PM, but because that prompt currently solicits the user to set up sync. Soliciting the user to set up sync while she is setting up sync seems weird. :) > > Undoubtably there are other ways to fix the problem, but it was the easiest one at the time. > > -chris
The "about:accounts" only approach is problematic [1] for the forthcoming firstrun flow - which is obviously not hosted on "about:accounts". Can we expand the pattern matching, perhaps to look for https://accounts.firefox.com with a special query parameter? Shane [1] - https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-content-server/issues/2373 On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Christopher Karlof <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Ryan Feeley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Was reminded yesterday by Michael Verdi (cc:ed) that the password manager >> does not currently save the Firefox Account password during sync >> registration. >> >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/xtdlnp2x11ds14q/fxa-password.png?dl=0 >> >> > There is a hardcoded rule to disable password saving for about:accounts. > It’s not because we don’t want the user to save her password in the PM, but > because that prompt currently solicits the user to set up sync. Soliciting > the user to set up sync while she is setting up sync seems weird. :) > > Undoubtably there are other ways to fix the problem, but it was the > easiest one at the time. > > -chris > > > > >> (the first one is what sync saves, which does not include password, the >> second one was saved when i signed in to the web) >> >> Currently it looks like about 13% of users are resetting their password >> instead of signing in (actually better than what I was expecting). >> >> Ryan Feeley >> UX, Cloud Services >> Mozilla UX >> IRC: rfeeley >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Passwords-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/passwords-dev >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Dev-fxacct mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxacct > >
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