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Re: Logging into Zyxel router (to configure it) from Firefox - password not saved correctly

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On 2026/9/3 12:27:19, Theo wrote:
> NY <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>> I've just checked the behaviour in Google Chrome and MS Edge, and it's 
>> the same, so it's not a Firefox problem: password is saved correctly but 
>> only echoes one character (again, the last one) in the Password field.

When you say only echoes one character, do you mean the router only
echoes one character, but the actual password was entered (i. e. gave
you access)? This _could_ be a security feature. Turnpike used to always
show 5 (IIRR) asterisks for a password, regardless of the actual length
thereof; their argument, which made sense to me, was that showing the
actual number of asterisks was an aid to the potential cracker, as it
indicated how many characters _were_ in the password. I've been
surprised how few (possibly no) other situations have implemented this
concealment.

But the following sounds more probable.>
> It's probably some dodgy Javascript on the router, trying to do something
> fancy like only showing the last letter of the entered password.  Like
> 'please enter your sort code' where the field isn't a text box but is 6
> one-character boxes with JS to shift the cursor from one box to the next. 
> Such things tend to confuse autofill.  Paste is a different pathway and
> maybe one works and the other doesn't, or something.
> 
> Not much you can do about it really.  I suppose you might be able to use a
> blocker like uBlock Origin to stop the dodgy script from running, but that
> sounds like more effort that it's worth.
> 
> Theo
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Logging into Zyxel router (to configure it) from Firefox - password not saved correctly "NY" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-09-03 10:10 +0100
  Re: Logging into Zyxel router (to configure it) from Firefox - password not saved correctly Woody <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> - 2026-09-03 10:58 +0100
    Re: Logging into Zyxel router (to configure it) from Firefox - password not saved correctly NY <me@privacy.net> - 2026-09-03 11:24 +0100
    Re: Logging into Zyxel router (to configure it) from Firefox - password not saved correctly NY <me@privacy.net> - 2026-09-03 11:35 +0100
      Re: Logging into Zyxel router (to configure it) from Firefox - password not saved correctly Woody <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> - 2026-09-03 11:57 +0100
      Re: Logging into Zyxel router (to configure it) from Firefox - password not saved correctly Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-09-03 12:27 +0100
        Re: Logging into Zyxel router (to configure it) from Firefox - password not saved correctly "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-09-03 14:01 +0100
          Re: Logging into Zyxel router (to configure it) from Firefox - password not saved correctly NY <me@privacy.net> - 2026-09-23 20:27 +0100
  Re: Logging into Zyxel router (to configure it) from Firefox - password not saved correctly Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-09-03 14:15 +0100

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