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Currently, the extension successfully installs and presents a new menu option, but doesn't do anything. It would be nice, if the password generator would work on mobile, too.

I'm using the dark theme in Firefox, and the icon is barely visible

Not sure how the development platform for FF add-ons works, but it would be nice if there was an icon for light mode, and then an alternate one for dark mode

It would be nice to simplify the user experience by placing all actions buttons to the top right corner, next to the password generation text field. Instead of labels we may use self-explanatory icons (e.g. 📋, 🔃, 💾, ⤳, etc.), which need to be really self-explanatory though.

Example UI change:

(Note: The icons are only examples in the modified screenshot above. The "eye" icon may be better "integrated" into the text field, say with a framing, as it is most tightly connected to the text field content.)

In addition, it may be unnecessary to provide a "Save Settings" action anyway, and simply save any changes to the dialog as it comes along (= less thinking for the user), which would spare another button.

Hi, it would be nice to make a password from a regular expression!
Is it possible in the next update, maybe?

I have been doing some things with AutoHotKey (https://www.autohotkey.com/) to fill forms faster.
It would be very helpful, to simply create a new password and put it in the selected form field by simply typing the hotstring ";npw" or ";opw" to put in the previous generated password. The name of the hotstrings or hotkeys could be customized.

Secure Password Generator could not be verified for use in Firefox Developer Edition and has been disabled.
Firefox Developer Edition 67.0b16 (64-bit)

It would be nice to have quick access to the Firefox password manager

• either via an icon, button or label on the Settings dialog
• or any context menu this extension provides (e.g. on text input fields)

This way this extension would provide a "free bonus feature", integrating well with the browser's feature set of "managing passwords".

The generated password is inserted "too quickly", there are now some websites that do not accept the password (e.g. https://meine.hanseaticbank.de/de/forgot-password/reset).

Can an option be added that uses random pauses between the insertion of the individual characters of the password?

subject line says it mostly?
can u add in or find out if Firefox Extended Support release v52.x will support SPG v1.0.6???
Please.

I on ESR release channel because I can't afford to lose the XUL support... XD

EDIT:
on a side note I manually installed v1.0.6 in FF ESR v52.3.0...
it installed ok and seems to be working ok ;)

When activated from toolbar icon.

Screen shot.

What does "right hand", "left hand", "both hands". Mean?

This issue is most annoying on the forms where the Submit button remains disabled until the password input field has changed, or two password fields that require password verification.

1. When I place the cursor into the empty input field and then I press the Use Password button, the browser does not see the password has been filled up. The submit button stays disabled.

2. In case of two password fields (New password and Verify password) the browser does not see that both passwords are the same and/or filled up, when using the Use Password button

The same issue is with the context menu Generate password or Insert previous password. In both cases I have to use Copy / Paste password to get around this issue.

I think it has something to do with JavaScript, which doesn't see the keypress event or something similar. Example site is https://id.arduino.cc

Currently Math.random is used as a source of randomness necessary to generate passwords. Math.random does not generate cryptographically secure radomness. Instead, a cryptographically strong source of randomness should be used; c.f. https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/20029/generate-cryptographically-strong-pseudorandom-numbers-in-javascript

Looks like firefox have just updated the browser and secure password generator does not work.

It would save me a few clicks to have the password generator copy the password to the clipboard on generation.

Keyboard shortcuts (presumably with browser.commands) for generation and insertion of last would also be useful.

Thanks!

Please consider allowing Min count to go to 1.
Please consider allowing choice of 1st character (Alpha/Num/Sym.)

Great little Add-On, thanks.

Hi!

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If one hides this extension in the overflow menu, the extension is also displayed within this menu, with a fixed width.
The layout of this extension is currently too wide for this menu, thus requiring horizontal scrolling:

It would be great if there was a compressed layout for this case (e.g. via a responsive layout or media-queries)

I know the purpose of this extension is to never think of passwords again, simply generate one and save it to the password manager. BUT:

Sometimes you happen to be on devices that don't have the (Firefox) password manager integrated. So, you look up the password, and then ... then you have a hard time typing in the thing you read from the screen (even worse: on your mobile device).

Hence, it would be nice to have (the option to have) human-readable passwords generated, e.g. simply long sentences. The typical example and explanation for this use case is XKCD's comic, "correct horse battery staple".

Please use some of your skills to adapt the latest version this extension to PaleMoon. PM is actively supported and your extension in its previous incarnation on FF was one of the most useful. Please revert to an older version to give us the useful pop-up and build a PM compatible version ASAP. There is life in the old dog yet!

I loved this extension on FF as it made password generation so much easier. The previous versions of this extension were superior in that they created a useful pop up which the later versions did not. I do not know why the previous behaviour was abandoned but it was NOT an improvement.

I have 0.51 installed on PaleMoon and it works beautifully just as it should.

Note: I have now moved from Firefox to Palemoon as it has an interface that is usable by me after the abortion that is Firefox Australis and Quantum. I have abandoned firefox for Palemoon which is Firefox without all the user interface rubbish that the Mozilla team introduced to make their browser look more like Chrome. It runs faster and is more stable too.

Currently if you try to generate a password, it wants to make a 10-char. That should be higher. Pretty much all services allow up to 20 char passwords, others are basically limitless.

Hello!

Thanks for your this kick-ass addon :)

I would like to request that support for multiprocess firefox is added.

When

1. a is uniformly distributed random non-negative integer smaller than A,
2. A % n != 0

a % n is not uniformly distributed, smaller numbers are a more likely result.

As an example, when A = 10 and n = 9, there are 2 possible values of a that result in a % n = 0 (a = 0 and a = 9), but there's only one value of a that produces each of the other possible results.

I have no clue how to fix this.

I cannot figure out how to use the generator on the mobile version of Firefox. I can install the addon fine, but there is no UI element to interact with it.

Typically, when using the generator, one must:

• Click on the toolbar button to open dialog
• Click on button Generate password
• Click on button Copy to clipboard

I wonder if this could be accelerated suppressing intermediate steps, e.g.

• Click on the toolbar button to open dialog
• Automatically generates password and copies it to clipboard -> No action required

Thus, unless one needs to change the default generation options, its use would be much faster, and its usability improved.

I use the add-on to generate pretty long passwords to get the highest possible security. However, using the same character count everytime doesn't really seem to support this purpose. Therefore, I randomly change the character count manually every time (e.g. 100, 93, 94, 89, 105 characters). It would be great to have the option of entering a range for the password length (e.g. from 90 to 110).

Thanks for an otherwise really useful and functional add-on!

I'm not sure whether this is a broken setting in my Firefox browser or the dialog font of this extension is really Serif. This is how it looks like to me:

This makes the dialog window look "oldish". Can we correct this and use the (probably) default font, sans-serif probably?

Would it be possible to limit showing the context menu on input[type="password"] fields only? Currently the 'Secure Password Generator' item shows up in all input fields, which doesn't make much sense (to me).

Regards.

The icon of this extension is the only non-builtin icon I didn't hide behind the "overflow button" in FF57.
However, the icon is driving me slightly crazy because of this blue circle with the checkmark, since it looks a lot like a notification bubble, i.e. asking for the user attention.

Moreover the icon is the only non-monochrome icon and uses a lighter gray than the built-in icon.

It would be nice if there was an option for a monochrome logo, preferably in the same gray as built-in icons.

Changes made to the default generation settings should be saved and thus reloaded throughout sessions. It's annoying having go back and tweak settings every time I restart the browser.

Add options to the addon that are identical to the parameters you can currently change but act as a "template" or the default values the addon uses across sessions. So instead of the current hardcoded values, you get the values from there.

A toggle switch in the options to enable saving of the parameters whenever they are changed in the main panel. Would simply override the parameters in the options but not change them.

see screenshot below..
It happens very time I click on the addons toolbar icon..
It didn't use to happen under Firefox v101.0.1 pretty sure..
but the mis-behaving does happen under Firefox v102.0.0
S.P.G. addon (v1.0.9)(Last Updated: October 10, 2018)

screenshot of issue:

screenshot of installed addons:

For me this is happening on Windows 11 Pro (x64)(v21H2)(build 22000.778)
as well as Waterfox classic too (v2022.06.00)
and on both on Windows 10 Pro x64

if you need any other info please ask.