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I am familiar with Safari on my Mac. Safari usually can recognize a registration form prompting for a new password. In such case, Safari automatically offers to generate a new random password.
Does Firefox 71 offer such a feature? I have somehow managed to save passwords in Firefox. But Firefox never offers to generate a password.
Basil Bourque
Posted 2019-12-08T19:30:02.473
Reputation: 394
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You need to right click in a password field (Firefox 70+):
Firefox 70 includes a new ‘securely generated password’ option that works in HTML password fields.
To use it, users simply right click in an empty password box on a sign-up page or register form, then select the Fill Password > Use a Securely Generated Password option.
Source Firefox 70 is Here with New Logo, Secure Password Generator + More - OMG! Ubuntu!
DavidPostill
Posted 2019-12-08T19:30:02.473
Reputation: 118 938
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An alternative solution is using the free LastPass.
It will not only suggest an uncrackable password, but will also remember it for all browsers, so it is always available and secure.
harrymc
Posted 2019-12-08T19:30:02.473
Reputation: 306 093
7Or something open source, like keepass or bitwarden. – Ave – 2019-12-09T12:50:23.860
I've never come across Bitwarden before but KeePass is ancient, I migrated from it to LastPass and never looked back. It may not be open-source, but it's free, fully-featured and modern. – Hashim – 2019-12-09T18:40:05.063
1@Hashim I have no idea how old Keepass is, but it works completely fine on even my very new (2019) computers. What, specifically, is wrong with it? Just being old isn't a problem. – john01dav – 2019-12-09T21:04:31.073
@john01dav: Old here means less features and no integration with newer OS such as smartphones or newer browsers. – harrymc – 2019-12-09T21:51:02.857
@harrymc There is an Android Keepass app that works quite well. I use it frequently. Additionally, the Keepass desktop application auto-types username and password into not just any browser but any program, on any OS. As such, it has plenty of integration with newer OS's. This leaves your claim about missing features. What features, exactly, are missing? – john01dav – 2019-12-09T22:36:26.087
@john01dav: LastPass is cloud-based while KeePass is not. For more detailed feature comparison, see for example link.
– harrymc – 2019-12-10T06:40:16.3402
Firefox is able to do this. Under Preferences > Privacy and Security > Logins and Passwords it can be enabled. The option is Suggest and generate strong passwords.
For further reading, this is the ticket tracking the feature in Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1565407
The feature requires password fields to have the attribute autocomplete="new-password" for it to work (as of now).
nathancahill
Posted 2019-12-08T19:30:02.473
Reputation: 152
Unfortunately, that option does not actually work. I tried a few sites, including creating an account on Google.com. I'll up-vote now as I presume the feature will get fixed eventually. For now, I suggest to other readers that they context-click as shown in the other Answer.
– Basil Bourque – 2019-12-09T21:24:41.843
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Firefox definitely offers to generate passwords when clicking in some password fields for me; this is what it looks like. Clicking the suggested password in the popup saves the newly generated password into Firefox's password store. If you want to try it, one place where it does consistently come up is the Xenforo community forum, click the "register" link at the top and click on the password field.
– JonasCz - Reinstate Monica – 2019-12-09T14:09:54.313