One of the nicest features in the upcoming Opera 9.5 is that the “save this password” prompt doesn’t hold back the website from loading. This gives the site an opportunity to log you in before saving would could potentially be an incorrect username or password.
The latest Firefox 3 nightlies also have a similar feature, but I believe it is implemented a little better than Opera’s. Firefox doesn’t use a popup dialog box anymore to ask the user to save a password, instead it shows a slim bar along the top of the site (pictured above). It’s unobtrusive, small, and doesn’t interrupt the browsing experience of the user.
Unfortunately no browser has figured out a way to determine whether the login was successful, and if the login wasn’t correct prevent the password-saving option from even appearing. However, this is a good enough alternative for me and I think most users will truly appreciate it.
One other thing that Mozilla added was a bar that appears when trying to install an extension from an untrusted site. Prior to this you had to whitelist a site before you could install an extension from it, but now you can temporarily allow it:
Source: Burning Edge & Mozilla Links
Thanks Ryan! I appreciate being kept up on Firefox. Onward & upward is a good thing.
Speaking of the Password Manager: have they fixed that security issue yet? You know, the bug that could allow external websites to steal your passwords.
Hmm…I’ve actually noticed that when it saves an incorrect password, I can go back to the site, punch in the correct password, and then save that, and the correct password overwrites the wrong one.
Though I could be wrong.
Actually Opera wand is still better, because it can save a lot more passwords than Firefox. For instance yahoo mail, or online bank login passwords can be saved in opera, but not in Firefox
That’s because it manually allows you to ignore the attributes that those companies put in fields to stop browsers trying to remember them. You can get Firefox extensions or Greasemonkey scripts to remove these attributes if you want Firefox to save the passwords. Ryan also posted a bookmarklet last week that does this.
No problem Ed!
Not that I’ve heard. I was actually just talking to Ashley about that, and how they need to fix that.
That is possible, but it’s assuming your username was correct. If you enter in the same username with a different password it will overwrite the existing password, but that obviously can’t be done if the username was incorrect. Opera’s the same way.
Inferno Strike is right, and I like the way Opera does it. But it’s not hard to get around anyways.
TYPO: “It’s unobtrusive, small, and does interrupt the browsing experience.”
My favorite part of Opera’s wand is that it auto-fills passwords, as well as other forms. It’s nice and convenient to just click the wand and have your info filled.
Another One-up for Firefox over opera.
What on earth are you talking about? If you mean Mozilla Bug 360493, the one that uses cross-site forms with the Myspace example, that was fixed ages ago. If not, can you please tell me what you mean?
That’s because those sites (or at least I know Yahoo Mail’s does) use the autocomplete=no attribute on their forms. Firefox respects this, and if what you’re saying is true I guess that means Opera doesn’t.
Well, I don’t know if I would go that far. Opera’s is pretty much the same thing.
I think he’s talking about this one:
[cybernetnews.com]
Hey, in Opera 9.5, clicking the wand no longer fills in personal info forms. Just passowords. To fill in the other forms, you have to click in the form and hit ctrl+enter, or right-click > insert personal. I want the wand button back!
That’s interesting…I never use the Wand button though. Maybe you should file that off as a bug.
Just did. The new wand behavior is very annoying.
I’ve also noticed a bug w/ the tab bin being disabled after being emptied, then closing a background tab.