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Bug 275114
Opened 20 years ago
Updated 2 months ago
no support for fingerprint reader functions
Categories
(Toolkit :: Password Manager, enhancement)
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(Reporter: junk, Unassigned)
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl-NL; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041202 Firefox/1.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl-NL; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041202 Firefox/1.0 In Mozilla you can't make use of a fingerprint reader. With such a reader you can secure you computer with your fingerprint, but also use it automaticlly fill in a login page of a website. In Internet Explorer this feature works like a charm, but sadly, no such luck in Firefox. Which is a pitty since I don't like having to give up browsing with Firefox. Digital Persona, the company that actually produces the hard- and software, has extended information available for developers to build in support for their application. (http://www.digitalpersona.com/SDK/products/resources/index.html) It would be nice if the next Firefox draft would support fingerprint readers. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open any webpage with a login field. 2. Place your finger on the reader, a pop up menu will ask you to to enter the username, passwd, etc. for the one time purpose of storing the information. 3. Place finger on reader again, Firefox will not enter the information and will just ask for the one-time information again. Actual Results: Firefox fails to fill in the login field. Expected Results: Fill in the form and submit it.
Comment 1•20 years ago
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see also bug 275974 and bug 184947.
Comment 2•20 years ago
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*** Bug 275974 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3•20 years ago
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*** Bug 289224 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4•20 years ago
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Odd, the reader didn't work at ALL in 1.0.2, and now that I've upgraded to 1.0.3, it does the steps described above.
Comment 5•20 years ago
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On a side note, after using the fingerprint reader, and closing Firefox, the Firefox GUI is closed, but the process is left running.
Updated•20 years ago
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Assignee: firefox → nobody
Comment 6•20 years ago
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*** Bug 296333 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7•20 years ago
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confirming, based on the dupes
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Comment 8•19 years ago
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Related to bug 184947?
Comment 9•19 years ago
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*** Bug 317461 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10•19 years ago
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(In reply to comment #1) > see also bug 184947. Gah, I missed this. Sorry for the additional bugspam but you know someone would point it out if I didn't correct myself.
Comment 11•18 years ago
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*** Bug 349998 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 14•16 years ago
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I have one of these if someone would like to write a patch and needs the hardware: http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=879 Contact me via my bugmail e-mail.
Updated•16 years ago
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Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: general → general
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Comment 17•16 years ago
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I *think* that the Verisoft fingerprint reader from Biocrypt is causing Firefox 3 to crash. This would affect many HP notebooks. Bug 468727. If there was a better way for these tools to use instead of our MSAA support that'd be great.
Comment 22•16 years ago
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Thomas K. : There is no standard API for such fingerprint software. This bug is there to create a new, pseudo-standard API for external Fingerprint software and possible external password managers. Would be great to get the other browser vendors to support such an API. Creating such an API would mean that the software for fingerprint sensors must be updated to support it. Supporting the digitalpersona API would be a bad idea because you that would not solve the issue for other external fingerprint software and password managers.
Comment 23•15 years ago
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Upek Fingerprint reader is not running and says that it is incompatible with the beta 4 release.
Updated•5 years ago
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OS: Windows XP → Windows
Hardware: x86 → Desktop
Comment 24•5 years ago
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Is there any update after 10 years? Given that Firefox already supports WebAuthn API, can some parts of it be also ported to Firefox internal functions (master password, autofill...)?
Updated•2 years ago
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Severity: normal → S3
Comment 25•2 months ago
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I believe password manager might be more appropriate component.
Component: General → Password Manager
Product: Core → Toolkit
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