Group search is being detected as a password field (Firefox)

[twofoursixeight]

On Firefox, the group username search is being detected as a password field:

Any Idea on what is causing this? It does not happen with Google Chrome I don’t think when I went to check on that browser.

[Alteras]

It might be interpreting the placeholder="username" attribute as a sign that it is a possible login field?

I am able to replicate on Firefox and Safari. I also have a browser extension on firefox for apple cloud passwords, and it is marking it as a login field as well (though that might just be latching onto Firefox’s own read of the page).

Safari screenshots

Firefox (with browser extension) screenshots

Maybe placeholder needs to be updated to something like “filter username”?

[nat (Natalie T)]

It does appear that as much as MDN tries to standardise these, the browsers don’t seem to be complying.

How to turn off form autocompletion - Security on the web | MDN

I’m gonna slap a pr-welcome here as this feels like a never-ending browser battle.