Firefox:Password Manager:UI

Goals

Specific items from the Firefox3/Product Requirements Document:

• P1 / PASS-001a -- Only let the user save the password after they know the login has succeeded
• P2 / PASS-001c -- Improve usefulness of password manager
• P2 / PASS-001d -- Improve discoverability of autofill UI for multiple accounts on the same site
• P2 / PASS-001e, f -- Improve "Show passwords" window. EG, searching.
• P2 / PASS-001g -- Simplify and promote the use of Master Password
• P2 / PASS-003a -- Generate random passwords for user

Other (some overlap):

• Get rid of popup modal dialogs where possible
• Opportunities to unify UI
• Investigate the possibility of authentication-in-chrome for new content authentications schemes to use (OpenID too?)
• Make management and use of multiple logins less confusing

Existing UI Touchpoints

• Authentication provided by user
  • Master Password popup
    • Enable/Disable Master Password pref
    • Change Master Password Dialog
  • HTTP authentication popup
  • Proxy authentication popup
  • Form fields in content
• Controlling what Firefox remembers
  • Saving user-provided authentication (except Master Password)
  • Blocking Firefox from certain places ("Never for this site")
  • Deleting existing logins
    • "Show Passwords" window in prefs
    • Shift-delete in an autocomplete field (only when multiple logins exist)
    • "Show Exceptions" window in prefs
  • Clear Private Data
    • Saved Passwords
    • Authenticated Sessions

UI Mockups

(todo)