[arch-general] Firefox user data autofill doesn't work as before

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 19:46:49 -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
>On 03/08/2017 04:20 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 21:40:37 +0100, Peter Nabbefeld wrote:  
>>> before latest update, firefox filled my login credentials
>>> automatically into the appropriate fields. Now I've first to select
>>> the user in a dropdown list - how can I revert this behaviour?  
>> 
>> During the years Firefox made that much steps into the wrong
>> direction, that I'm surprised that a user still cares that much about
>> new issues introduced by a Firefox update.
>> 
>> One of the most worse steps IMO was the step that after selecting a
>> link in the history, the cursor in the history does lose focus. IOW
>> if you searched an hour to find a segment with several wanted links,
>> after clicking one link, the selection gets lost and you need to
>> search again. I'm not aware of any other browser with this abstruse
>> behaviour.
>> 
>> Many other users dislike that they need to check about:config against
>> google safebrowsing spyware again and again.  
>
>Did you just post here to make a completely unrelated rant, or what?
>
>You may not have realized this change is a positive security
>enhancement, as Stephan Fischer posted

Ok I understand, https://aur.archlinux.org/login/ is an insecure web
site, since the issue mentioned by the OP happens with this login.
However, for my taste it's not a problem to select the user name, but
this history problem is an issue for me, as well as the safebrowsing
that gets added, even if you removed it. Some of many issues, that
are reason for me to use other web browsers. Could you explain what's
actually insecure with https://aur.archlinux.org/login/ ? It's a https
page, not a http page.

The history once upon a time worked as the history still works for
nearly any other browser. Fortunately there are other browsers we could
chose and a lot of people migrated to other browsers. It's not an
unrelated rant, since the OP dislikes two changes, I try to explain
that many users discontinued using Firefox. By the pulseaudio thread I
already mentioned other firefox based and firefox alike projects. That
web browser developers go different ways in general is not only an
issue for firefox, that's why there's vivaldi ;).

However, in regards to security firefox would be the last browser I
would use. Java script settings were removed and since they by default
anyway use google's safe browsing, users at least should consider to use
the security advantages of chrome. Btw. for some tasks I'm still using
firefox, but security isn't one of those tasks.