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OS: Linux , Android , Windows , Chrome , Mac
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Type: Bug



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Password generation on change forms creates a bad user experience.

Project Member Reported by battre@chromium.org, Jun 12 2018

Issue description

Password generation on password change forms has a pretty bad user experience:

In the following we assume that you have a password stored for a site on which you want to generate a new password. This is a pair of (username, password).

Steps: 
1. You go to the password change form and generate a password.
2. Chrome stores the generated password with an empty username.
3. You submit the form and get a confirmation that the credential was saved.
4. Now you have two credentials: the old (username, password) and the new (empty, password).
 

Comment 1 by battre@chromium.org, Jun 12 2018

The two approaches possible seem to be:
1) Disable password generation on password change forms (via server-side settings)
2) Fix the UI. 
Owner: kolos@chromium.org
The decision is to change the UI. The generation confirmation prompt should allow editing the username.
Status: Assigned (was: Available)

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