Just one quick idea: the “remember this password” dialog should not come up when you click submit on a form. Instead, it should come up on the next page, and say “remember the password you used to get here?” or something similar. Half my problem with logging into websites is that I can’t remember whether the password I’m putting in is right or not (if I haven’t been there in a while, and don’t have a password saved), so I always tell it not to remember (because having it remember a wrong password is crap). So, if I did remember it right, I then log out of that website, then log in again and this time tell it to remember. If it asked on the next page, once the form had been submitted, it’d be perfect.
This should probably be a wishlist bug in Bugzilla, not a post here.
Update: and now it is a bug in Bugzilla
On I wrote A Firebird idea, on the subject of Uncategorized.
Jon
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the same exact behavior bugs me with Opera's wand.
sil
Darn it, it's a duplicate. I tried really hard to make sure I looked first. However, it appears that I filed it under Mozilla and the first bug was under Firebird -- the Password Managers are apparently different. Not sure how I could have solved that.
Simon Willison
I couldn't agree more - I've thought this on many occasions. I /always/ have to say "No" to remember my password, simply because I'm never 100% sure I'm putting in the right thing.
huphtur
if you put in wrong password, and get it right on the next try, firebird remembers the correct one.
sil
Does it? Stone me, I didn't know that.
Richard Allsebrook
Thats a real 'head-slap - why-didnt-i-think-of-that' idea! Are you going to forward it to the development teams?
Spot on. It annoys me every time but I never made the leap :(