Issue 1854: The username and password remember option fill up non login  
fields.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1854

Comment #7 by unknown.unit:
I just tested this again with 0.3.155.0 (Developer Build 5673).  Behaviour  
is
consistent with previous versions.

Based on the different place in the page it appears, I would say that what  
is
happening is the browser is finding the first password field on the page  
and then
filling that with the password, and whatever is above it with the username.

On a phpbb forum profile page, this results in emailaddress being filled  
with the
user name (user names are not changeable and so are just displayed as text,  
not as an
input field.)

On a custom registration page which has the password almost at the bottom,  
it is
filling the username in for the cellphone field - this is the field above  
the
password field, which is what led me to believe it is searching for the  
password
field and then just assuming the field above is the username (on a login  
page this
should be true - on a registration or profile page it often will not be.)

since fields can be inconsistently named (e.g. in this case on registration  
the field
which will become username is called emailaddress, but then on the login  
form it is
called username) I am sure a fix which retains the auto fill functionality  
is
difficult.  Possibly it requires a standard to which sites need to conform  
(username
called username everywhere even if it is an email address as well) - this  
would also
require the browser to check for a field called username and one called  
password, and
then it could guess if it doesn't find both.

It wouldn't be perfect, and won't help at all on sites I can't change and  
which the
designers won't change (the custom reg page is on a site I built and I can  
change,
phpbb I can't) but it would be a little better than the current situation.



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