Last modified: 2007-02-01 00:55:56 UTC
The login page has a combined login and registration form. This means that Firefox will not detect it as login form (because it's not just one text field + one password field + submit button), and the password manager will break, i.e. not come up. This means I have to enter my password *manually* *every* time. Given that I use a different password for every site (obvious reasons), I need to look it up every time. This is *terribly* annoying. I have to do it every half an hour or so on my companies wiki. I don't know whether that's due to bug 1396, or because I enabled session cookies in Firefox or whatever. It doesn't matter, though. You should not assume everlasting cookies, and it's already too annoying to have to manually login once a day per wiki site, given that one might want to do only a small edit and/or work on different wikis. Fix is trivial: make 2 forms: One for login, one for registration. You only have to duplicate 2 fields. The form as-is is very confusing anyways, because the vast majority of sites has a separate page for registration.
There *are* separate login and user registration forms, and this has been the case since at least 1.6.0.
I have been using FF's login manager with mediawiki for ages. It even worked when it used to be the same page.
It does *not* work for me on http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin Same for my company's wiki. I don't know how to find out the MediaWiki version as wiki user.
See http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Special:Version It's version 1.5.6. Really old...
Thanks. Filed bug against mozilla.org https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368919
Works on de.wikipedia.org, which reports itself as MediaWiki 1.10alpha. VERIFY.
