<div dir="ltr">> 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. :)<div>> <br></div><div>> Undoubtably there are other ways to fix the problem, but it was the easiest one at the time.</div><div>><br></div><div>> -chris<br><br></div><div>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 <a href="https://accounts.firefox.com">https://accounts.firefox.com</a> with a special query parameter?<br><br></div><div>Shane<br><br>[1] - <a href="https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-content-server/issues/2373">https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-content-server/issues/2373</a><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Christopher Karlof <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ckarlof@mozilla.com" target="_blank">ckarlof@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Ryan Feeley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rfeeley@mozilla.com" target="_blank">rfeeley@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>Was reminded yesterday by Michael Verdi (cc:ed) that the password manager does not currently save the Firefox Account password during sync registration.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/xtdlnp2x11ds14q/fxa-password.png?dl=0" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/xtdlnp2x11ds14q/fxa-password.png?dl=0</a></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>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. :)</div><div><br></div><div>Undoubtably there are other ways to fix the problem, but it was the easiest one at the time.</div><div><br></div><div>-chris</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div></div><div>(the first one is what sync saves, which does not include password, the second one was saved when i signed in to the web)</div><div><br></div><div>Currently it looks like about 13% of users are resetting their password instead of signing in (actually better than what I was expecting).</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>
<div><div>Ryan Feeley</div><div>UX, Cloud Services</div><div>Mozilla UX</div><div>IRC: rfeeley</div></div>
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