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mtoboll
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3 years ago

Autofill stopped working in Firefox on iPhone?

I normally use Firefox on my iPhone, but also have Edge and Safari browsers installed. Recently I noticed after updates that Firefox (and Edge) do not seem to "know" that I've got the 1Password a...
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mtoboll
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3 years ago

Thanks Dave! I’ll take a look.

I’m curious to know what you think about something. I did web development a while back, but been away from it for a bit now.

I know that the password input field is a specific form PASSWORD TYPE (which is one reason you get stars or dots by default when typing in it). But username/login fields are generally a TEXT TYPE which are used for all manner of things. So guessing it relies more on the field’s LABEL or other attribute which can be whatever the web guy wants to make it.

This makes me wonder if there was a specific USERNAME or LOGIN TYPE field if that would help everyone across the board to identify these more easily, reliably and consistently. (thinking it could also default dots/stars for additional security measure).

Not sure who exactly “governs” this in HTML Standards World, but if it would benefit password management in this way, I wonder if that’s something you can somehow pitch up to the powers that be as a future standard. (?)

Anyway, just my 2 cents worth :)