Generate password from about:logins

[CubeOfCheese]

I would like to generate a secure password from the about:logins page.

On some websites, the browser does not recognize the password field and therefore does not suggest a strong password. I also want to generate passwords for desktop apps, other devices etc.

Currently I have to navigate to a random website, pretend to create a new account, then copy the generated password.

Instead I would like to open the passwords manager and generate a new password from there.

There is already a button to create a new login in the passwords manager. I think that would be a perfect place to add this functionality.

[Oyaji]

This sounds like a good idea.   I was having an issue with password generator as well. The website i was using would not let me change passwords  if i had that feature enabled .  

On that note i noticed that passwords generated with that feature are only alpha numeric. Some sites ask you to include special characters as well.  ( which you can do after genereating a password with FF ).

My question is > Why not  include special characters in that generator from the start ?

[Herobrine]

@Oyaji I think that’s a separate idea - add an option to choose from generating passwords of random dictionaries words, alpha numeric, or alpha numeric + symbols.

[GnenoDEV]

I think being able to generate a new password inside about:logins would help you become less hackable across several other websites or services.

I would want to add this to your idea aswell @CubeOfCheese. Maybe make the ability to create a "Fake" user inside Mozilla Firefox aimed for a 3rd-party (Software/App) So you can return to your Firefox Account (about:logins) In case you would need it.

[CubeOfCheese]

@GnenoDEVActually you can do this already! And I do it all the time. I sometimes store passwords for apps on my phone in firefox's password manager. You just click the Create New Login button at the bottom of the password manager.

[GnenoDEV]

@CubeOfCheeseThank you! I didnt know this.

[Jon]

Hey all, 

Here with an exciting update…

Your idea has quickly received a great deal of votes (kudos) and support here in the Mozilla Connect community, so we are upgrading the status to “Trending idea.” This means it’s now one step closer to reaching our internal teams for review—learn more about The Idea Journey. 

Please keep the conversation going and stay tuned for updates 😃

-The Community Team

[Jon]

Hey all, 

Here with an exciting update…

Your idea has quickly received a great deal of votes (kudos) and support here in the Mozilla Connect community, so we are upgrading the status to “Trending idea.” This means it’s now one step closer to reaching our internal teams for review—learn more about The Idea Journey. 

Please keep the conversation going and stay tuned for updates 😃

-The Community Team

[Jon]

Hey all, 

Here with an exciting update…

Your idea has quickly received a great deal of votes (kudos) and support here in the Mozilla Connect community, so we are upgrading the status to “Trending idea.” This means it’s now one step closer to reaching our internal teams for review—learn more about The Idea Journey. 

Please keep the conversation going and stay tuned for updates 😃

-The Community Team

[Serg]

Hello everyone,

Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. As it happens we started a similar conversation about

Password Generation in Firefox. Please join us there, but we will also address everything shared here.

[Jon]

Hey all,

Here with another exciting update…

This idea has been upgraded to "In review" which means it will be brought to our internal teams for review—learn more about The Idea Journey. As soon as we have another update on its status, we’ll let you know right here in the comment section.

Stay tuned 😃

-The Community Team

[Jon]

Hey all,

Here with another exciting update…

This idea has been upgraded to "In review" which means it will be brought to our internal teams for review—learn more about The Idea Journey. As soon as we have another update on its status, we’ll let you know right here in the comment section.

Stay tuned 😃

-The Community Team

[Jon]

Hey all,

Here with another exciting update…

This idea has been upgraded to "In review" which means it will be brought to our internal teams for review—learn more about The Idea Journey. As soon as we have another update on its status, we’ll let you know right here in the comment section.

Stay tuned 😃

-The Community Team

[Anonymous]

good idea!

[Jon]

Hi all,

Great news!

Our teams have reviewed this idea (and supporting comments) and the feature is now "In development."

An engineer will add a comment here shortly with more info.

-The Community Team

[Jon]

Hi all,

Great news!

Our teams have reviewed this idea (and supporting comments) and the feature is now "In development."

An engineer will add a comment here shortly with more info.

-The Community Team

[Serg]

Hey all,

Just wanted to let you know that we have a few bugs to implement things mentioned here:

• allow generate a password in about:logins
• add special characters to the generated password
• support generating passphrase instead of password

[CubeOfCheese]

Hmm. I looked at the link and it says last updated 4 months ago and it has a Priority of P3. So what effect did this idea process have? It seems like the idea was just acknowledged as something the devs already knew about and that's it. Is that pretty much what we should expect?

[Serg]

Nope, we have intent to make this happen. But I can not give any promises or ETA yet, we are looking for the ways we can squeeze extra work in without disrupting everything else.

[Anonymous]

Hi all! we are close to 100 likes, we now have 95 likes, that is, 5 likes are missing for 100 likes ;D So... this feature is very important folks

[moddien]

how about that: if you right click any text field, there could be an option to "generate and save new random password"

i was trying to show to a less tech-savy family member the "generate strong password" function of firefox. first we tried changing the e.g. paypal password but in the "new password"-field it only shows saved passwords and we had to delete the old entries to make it generate a new one.

then we tried in some random web shop where they didn't already have an account but firefox didn't come up with the generated password suggestion, I believe FF didn't recognize it as a password field.

Also, old passwords should not be overwritten without clear confirmation. The current "update password" button is not clear enough. It happened to me that I tried to change a password and FF already updated it in the password manager but the website cancelled it for some reason (eg asks for 2FA afterwards but I have let it time out). In that case the old password is lost and I had to do the "forget password" procedure.

Sorry for my mediocore English, if you have questions let me know.

Thank you FIrefox-Team for everything and have a great day!