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CubeOfCheese
Making moves
Status: Delivered

Sometimes websites require special characters or have other parameters. It would be nice to have firefox's password manager take this into account by letting the user control some options for the generation algorithm.

This was also mentioned by @Herobrine in another thread.

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Status changed to: New idea
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

Thanks for submitting an idea to the Mozilla Connect community! Your idea is now open for votes (kudos) and comments.

tmick
New member

Would be nice, most websites require a special character now kind of renders the suggestion feature useless

A117
New member

Many sites requires presence of special characters in password, while FF's generates complex password without such characters. Would be good to add option to add special characters to FF's generated passwords.

Thanks.

firefoxRigge
Strollin' around

Instead of letting the users control some PW options it could also make sense to retrieve the PW requirements from the page. The attachment shows a screenshot where the page even shows the PW requirements and the mismatch with the PW suggested by FF.PW_Generation_Feature_02.png

k_sze
New member

I like @firefoxRigge 's idea of retrieving password requirements. However, I believe there is probably no web standard for a web site to hint password requirements in a machine-extractable way.

An alternative is to make it so that the password requirements for each website can be crowd-sourced and added to a database that the Firefox password generator can use.

jmd
New member

add special characters to suggestions from firefox's password generator

Most sites require special characters in their passwords, I noticed that the idea is almost one year old, nevertheless the situation is remaining the same today.

billyandriam
New member

The year is 2023 and Firefox's suggested password still do not have special characters.

Alexis2022
New member

Password

El Navegador Firefox trae una opción al hacer click derecho de una sugerencia de contraseña segura. Muy buena opción. Pero estaría mejor si tuviera también caracteres especiales tales como: @o # o % . Lo que haría más seguras las contraseñas, en vez de tener sólo números y letras al azar. Saludos. Y gracias.

The Firefox Browser brings an option on right-clicking for a strong password hint. Very good option. But it would be better if it also had special characters such as: @ or # or % . Which would make passwords more secure, instead of just having random letters and numbers. Greetings. And thanks.

Chisel
Strollin' around

I totally agree with the need for special characters, and would add the ability to tune the length of the PW.

Status changed to: In development
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

Hi all,

Here with some exciting news...

This is being worked on and will be available soon—stay tuned for updates 😀

 

 

Chisel
Strollin' around

Hi Jon, et al,

This is great. Are you considering a way to adjust the length of the PW as well? It would make them even harder to jail break if their length is unknown, while if Mozilla generated PWs are always X characters long, that might be an easier target.

Serg
Employee
Employee

Hey all,

Latest Firefox Nightly will have special characters in generated passwords!

Please let us know if it breaks any site compatibility. We'll keep working on improving Password Generator, including giving you control over length or quality of generated passwords.

Status changed to: Delivered
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

Great job all around! This is now available in our latest Firefox Nightly release—check it out.

Looking forward to continuing to collaborate with you all here on Connect 🙌

AlecClaire
Making moves

Where are the special signs? The level of passwords that are now is simply unacceptable.

Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)