Why doesn't Firefox always tell you to save your password?

Question

Mozilla Firefox

The latest version, 65.0.1 (64-bit), does not offer to save passwords on all sites. More precisely, on one specifically I often visit. This site is not registered in the exceptions for saving passwords. My list of exclusions for passwords is generally empty. The list of exceptions for storing cookies is also empty. The site itself is the public web face of the router, accessed via the KeenDNS domain name service, if that matters. On other browsers, there are no saving problems, so it's not the site. There are reasons to use firefox and I don’t want to breed a zoo of browsers. Is there a solution?

Answer 1

Password saving is not offered if the site uses custom forms. For example, if instead of submitting the form, the content is sent via an AJAX request, if the form elements themselves are not in the tag <form>, if something else is used instead of the submit button (for example, a link with a JavaScript handler), etc. Also, saving the form is not offered if the site explicitly forbids it by adding the attribute autocomplete="false"to the form elements.
As a rule, in these cases, I open dev tools, remove all non-standard processing, add a regular button, remove unnecessary attributes, fill in the login / password, press submit, save the login / password and reload the page. In 95% of cases it helps, the only nuance appears in the case of a ban on autocomplete - in this case, when you click on the login field, Firefox will offer to select a saved login and fill in the password when selected.