Hrm, I have an extension that does that. I'll look into it.
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Title:
Chromium password autocomplete broken for certain fields
Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Used Ubuntu: Kubuntu 13.10 amd64
Today I installed the following upgrades (taken from
/var/log/apt/history.log):
Start-Date: 2014-03-18 20:22:56
Upgrade: chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra:amd64
(32.0.1700.107-0ubuntu0.13.10.1~20140204.972.1,
33.0.1750.152-0ubuntu0.13.10.1~pkg984.1), chromium-browser-l10n:amd64
(32.0.1700.107-0ubuntu0.13.10.1~20140204.972.1,
33.0.1750.152-0ubuntu0.13.10.1~pkg984.1), chromium-browser:amd64
(32.0.1700.107-0ubuntu0.13.10.1~20140204.972.1,
33.0.1750.152-0ubuntu0.13.10.1~pkg984.1)
End-Date: 2014-03-18 20:23:19
They broke autocomplete for HTML password fields which have the
"autocomplete=off" attribute set.
While this might not sound like a bug to you, it IS a regression: With
previous versions, the "autocomplete=off" attribute could be temporarily
disabled with a JavaScript bookmarklet [1]. Then Chromium would ask the user to
store the password. Once the password was stored in the database, future visits
of the site would autocomplete the field. So basically in previous versions,
the "autocomplete=off" flag was only a guardian against storing the password in
the database, NOT against restoring it from the database if it is already in
the database.
In the current version, autocomplete does NOT restore the stored password
anymore, even when manually choosing the username from the username field's
drop down menu. Using the bookmarklet to set "autocomplete=on" also doesn't
help. I've tried this with two different websites.
You might argue that this is intended by the website's developer. But
I think it is an unacceptable restriction of my personal choice as a
user of what I want to do with my computer. It wastes my time to
continuously have to enter shitloads of passwords of websites which I
have to visit every day. And the disabling of autocomplete form is
slowly creeping into a lot of websites because it allows them to
generate a false sense of security for non-expert users while
obstructing anyone who trusts his machine.
[1] Store this as a bookmark, without the quotes: "javascript:(function(){var
fm=document.getElementsByTagName('form');for(i=0;i<fm.length;i++){fm[i].setAttribute('autocomplete','on');}var
inp=document.getElementsByTagName('input');for(i=0;i<inp.length;i++){inp[i].setAttribute('autocomplete','on');}})()"
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