Bug#558126: epiphany-browser - password form saving is inoperable

Gustavo Noronha Silva kov at debian.org
Tue Jan 5 12:32:13 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 00:11 +0100, Vincent Caron wrote:
> The data is still there (Edit > Personal Data > Passwords) but does not
> automatically fills up forms and HTTP auth popups.
> 
> The whole story seems to be there:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594377
> 
> It might be fixed by simply re-compiling libsoup-gnome2.4 with the
> LIBSOUP_I_HAVE_READ_BUG_594377_AND_KNOW_SOUP_PASSWORD_MANAGER_MIGHT_GO_AWAY macro defined. At least until Epiphany makes up its mind about the "right thing", because right now it's plainly wrong : in testing, a working feature has been removed instead of being fixed or refactored.

That's a different story. That bug is related to http basic auth
passwords, and epiphany already enables that crazy define =).

Form passwords have been fixed during the webkit hackfest, and will be
in 2.29.4

See you,

-- 
Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov at debian.org>
Debian
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