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.
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Users are reporting that in Firefox, the group username search field is being incorrectly detected as a password field, triggering password autofill prompts. twofoursixeight notes this issue does not occur in Chrome. Alteras suspects the placeholder="username" attribute is causing the misinterpretation and confirms the issue in both Firefox and Safari, with a browser extension exacerbating it. Suggestions include changing the placeholder to something like “filter username.” nat points out inconsistencies in browser behavior despite standardization efforts and labels the issue as a persistent cross-browser challenge, adding a pr-welcome tag for potential fixes.
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.
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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).
Maybe placeholder needs to be updated to something like “filter username”?
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It does appear that as much as MDN tries to standardise these, the browsers don’t seem to be complying.
I’m gonna slap a pr-welcome here as this feels like a never-ending browser battle.
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