Question

I’m in the same situation as this guy: Triggering the Change Saved Password dialog in firefox

I have a modal window that appears to let the user to change his password. When submitting the form (it’s a POST), Firefox doesn’t ask to change the password in its database.
I tried several things:

1. A dynamic form (created with JavaScript) with all fields with autocomplete=”on”, and with two fields named “current-password” and “new-password”

2. A dynamic form (created with JavaScript) with all fields with autocomplete=”on”, and with two fields named “current-password” and “password”

3. A dynamic form (created with JavaScript) with all fields with autocomplete=”on”, and with three fields named “username”, “current-password” and “password”

4. A non-dynamic form with all fields with autocomplete=”on”, and with three fields named “username”, “current-password” and “password” ==> in that case Firefox shows me my username in the “username” field and my current password in the field “current-password”

5. I also tried to call my two fields “password” and “new-password”

I tried to use the JavaScript submit() command, then I tried a SUBMIT input button in my form. The form has also the autocomplete="on".

But Firefox never asks me if I want to update my saved password… Any ideas?

Answer 1

Check that you haven’t set a block exception.

Tools > Options > Security: Passwords: Exceptions

You can also check if there are any entries for that site or entries with an empty name listed in the password manager.

 Tools > Options > Security: Passwords: "Saved Passwords" > "Show Passwords"

If you click “Never” then you create an exception that needs to be removed.