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Recovery key no longer saved in Firefox password manager
Steps to reproduce
- Where are you starting? What can you see?
- https://app.element.io/
- log in with user+password
- click away some page
- get prompted for recovery key
- What do you click?
- I click the middle mouse button to paste my recovery key
- then press enter
- More steps…
- at that point, Firefox should ask to save the recovery key, but it doesn’t
Outcome
What did you expect?
Firefox should prompt to save the recovery key.
What happened instead?
Nothing.
Until a recent update to Element this worked as expected and I had the key filled in by the password manager that is built into Firefox. Now the input element no longer seems to be recognized as a password field.
This is undesireable as it forces me to open my encrypted notes every time I open the Element page after launching Firefox, and copy credentials to the clipboard in plain. Ideally the login info should come from the password manager entirely.
Operating system
NixOS
Browser information
Firefox 137.0.1, official builds
URL for webapp
https://app.element.io/
Application version
Element version: 1.11.103 Crypto version: Rust SDK 0.11.0 (404ca47), Vodozemac 0.9.0
Homeserver
matrix.org
Will you send logs?
No
This might be happening because the input field is no longer a "password" field, per https://github.com/element-hq/element-meta/issues/2888
This might be happening because the input field is no longer a "password" field, per element-hq/element-meta#2888
Interesting, thanks for digging that out.
Could this be brought back in a way? Looks like the password status was dropped on accident while the linked issue was only concerned with visibility of the entered data.
I think Firefox only offers to store values from fields that are set to be "masked". In other words, the same setting controls both features.
https://github.com/element-hq/element-meta/issues/2888 is up for a fix soon; let's revisit this once that has happened.