Fenix: Internal password manager is not working with basic authentification

[Hubfront]

The internal password manager does not store new login credentials nor does it autofill the login prompt, when basic authentification method is used.

Basic authentification is a common used authentification method, especially in an university environment and if the internal password manager of fenix cannot handle that, this should be considered as a bug. This getting fixed is even more important, because with fenix, getting login credentials from the login credentials page is much more complicated now: you cant copy username and password as easily to the login page, as it was possible with fennec.

Steps to reproduce

Make a http basic authentification login page, e.g. with https://www.blitter.se/utils/basic-authentication-header-generator/

Expected behavior

First run: Fill out the login prompt with user/pass. Firefox offers to store the login credentials in its database
Second visit: Firefox autofills login prompt with username/password. When multiple logins are possible, Firefox offers to select one of them

Actual behavior

The internal password manager does not offer to store new login credentials, nor the internal password manager does autofill the login prompt with login credentials, that are already in its database.

Device information

• Android device: Galaxy Note 10
• Fenix version: v82, beta (v83), nightly (v84)

[cadeyrn]

You commented yesterday already in four different issues (!) about the same thing - why do we need another issue for basic authentification? What is the difference to all the other issues?

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/16270#issuecomment-719818997
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/13961#issuecomment-719821164
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/13941#issuecomment-719813800
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/8642#issuecomment-719821645

[Hubfront]

@cadeyrn Because, unfortunately, my issue was falsely marked (and closed) as dupe of a feature request, that adresses the failure of fenix to work together with a 3rd party password manager when basic auth is used.

In contrary, my bug report adresses a bug of fenix own, internal password manager. My strong opinion is, that fenix internal password manager should handle basic authentification properly as well as it should handle the other types of authentification properly (which it does since some weeks).

It's weird, that development had ignored the problem of fenix/fennec not able to handle multiple logins for years. It was a super big quality problem of fenix/fennec. The bug #5551 was recently fixed in August 2020. Well lets hope, that fenix will be able to save/fill basic auth prompts properly within 2020 too. For sure this wont be fixed, if lazy developers mark it as low priority "feature request" in order to never need to fix it at all. Its a bug that need to be fixed, because its a big quality problem of fenix.

[kbrosnan]

Closing as a duplicate

[Hubfront]

@kbrosnan Why dont you bother to fix this bug?