Thanks for the report!

I cannot find the exact form appearing on the screenshot in comment #1, but I suppose both fields are part of the same form. If so, then currently there is no way for Chrome to understand that the text field on the left is not a username, unless the webpage author uses the autocomplete attributes to annotate the password field, and a (hidden) dummy username.

Fortunately, this is not a fatal issue, because the user can change the username on filling, but it may look confusing and deter the user from saving.

Potential fixes could involve:
* Try to measure the distance (visual or in HTML code) between the text and password fields: if they are too far apart, we could lower the confidence of what is the username and offer the empty username as an option for saving.
* Messaging better during saving that the saved username can be corrected during filling.

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