![]() ![]() it is not the web-server that has the oddball policy.That is because in the case of a shared kiosk: We don't want someone to (accidentally or intentionally) save their password so they next user could use it.Īny attempt by any web-site to circumvent the browser's preference is wrong I have a shared, public area, kiosk style computer. There are people who bring up a good use-case: Microsoft even had to explain before IE11 that it wasn't a bug in the browser - that the web-site was broken: Why Won’t IE Remember My Login Info? ( archive.is) What if I'm a special snowflake? There is no reason known why a web-site should try to disable saving of passwords. IE11 fixed the bug of not being able to auto-complete passwords ( archive.is)Īny attempt by any web-site to circumvent the browser's preference is wrong that is why browsers ignore it.Chrome's announcement when they began ignoring autocomplete=off ( archive.is).Bugzilla Bug 956906 - ignore autocomplete="off" when offering to save passwords via the password manager ( archive.is).The reason browsers are ignoring autocomplete=off is because there have been some web-sites that tried to disable auto-completing of passwords.Īnd in July 2014, Firefox was the last major browser to finally implement the change to ignore any web-site that tries to turn off autocompleting of passwords. ![]() How can you prevent Chrome (and all browsers) from prompting to save this password? It's actually quite important the user of the computer does not know this password - someone else must enter it in for them - so if the browser saves it that would be bad. ![]() It is a password, therefore it shouldn't be visible as plain text in the input box, but it's not a password that should ever be saved - it's not login credentials. There's no other input box on this page, and no other browser prompts to save this password, so I don't know why Chrome does. Chrome was recently updated with an annoying popup that comes down from an icon in the address bar and prompts to save a password on the page when the user submits the form. ![]()
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