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Sort order for password suggestion displays

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Jeff
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I use this feature non-stop, it's extremely useful (especially since the dates were added). Lately I've noticed that I have to take more time to scroll through the password suggestions and find the right one for the right date. Normally i'm looking for the most recent password suggestion.

In several cases, I have the same user across multiple subdomains that are really for the same site. Is there a way to customize how these password suggestions are sorted? I'd prefer they are sorted with a higher preference on date given the username that's been used in the past on a particular site. Once the end user clicks the username field, it would initially display results for the common user for that site or other user if they start to type another username in then sort them based on date.

I feel like this config may already exist so coming here to see how to configure it.

Also curious how to increase the number of entries displayed in the password suggestions box.

Thank you!

I use this feature non-stop, it's extremely useful (especially since the dates were added). Lately I've noticed that I have to take more time to scroll through the password suggestions and find the right one for the right date. Normally i'm looking for the most recent password suggestion. In several cases, I have the same user across multiple subdomains that are really for the same site. Is there a way to customize how these password suggestions are sorted? I'd prefer they are sorted with a higher preference on date given the username that's been used in the past on a particular site. Once the end user clicks the username field, it would initially display results for the common user for that site or other user if they start to type another username in then sort them based on date. I feel like this config may already exist so coming here to see how to configure it. Also curious how to increase the number of entries displayed in the password suggestions box. Thank you!

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cor-el
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You can suppress entries for a subdomain to have a clearer view, but there is no way to sort the items.

Current Firefox releases include subdomains as a suggestion in the drop-down list. You can set signon.includeOtherSubdomainsInLookup = false on the about:config page to disable this feature to show sub domains.

Jeff
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I would like to keep the subdomain there, I actually use these when there's mandated password rotations (which happens all too often). I was just asking if there a way to get the most recent time that username/pass combo was used/set to appear at the top of the list.