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Is there any technical reason that a password manager cannot be made to work with split logins or hidden fields? Shouldn't they have access to the same web brow
by astine 8y ago
Is there any technical reason that a password manager cannot be made to work with split logins or hidden fields? Shouldn't they have access to the same web browser that user does? I'd think that could be scripted to handle these things. Obviously this makes it more complex for password managers to auto-enter passwords, different websites will have different scripts but I see no reason for this to be an insurmountable issue.
- schroffl 8y agoI made a custom password manager a while back [1] where I used the MutationObserver API [2] to detect when a field is unhidden or newly added. I mainly did it to deal with iClouds login flow. The performance of that could probably be improved by figuring out the container of the login and only attaching the observer to that. But the whole thing was never really finished and I eventually forgot about it. [1] https://github.com/schroffl/browser-password https://github.com/schroffl/browser-password [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MutationObserver/blob/master/content-scripts/login.js#L11 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MutationObs...