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You can get/set HTMLInputElement.value on [type="password"] anyway so if you wanted to shim the PW field copy/paste functionality back, you could just create a bookmarklet or something.

Edit, threw an example together. Ignore the horrible code ;P

Http://jsfiddle.net/6gc2d6hb

Type in one of the PW fields then double-click it. Doesn't overwrite populated PW fields.




And once again, we find ourselves inspecting elements to fix someone's brilliant idea.


True enough - the open nature of the client makes a joke of so many do-called security measures implemented there.


I just open up firebug and edit the DOM to add value='mydesiredpassword' to the password field(s).




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