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Password amendment

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Hi there,

My name's Jack Murphy. I have a recommendation for a feature on Firefox, but I'm also building my portfolio as an entry-level software engineer.

So, the improvement Firefox needs to make is that a special character needs to be inserted in the 'randomised password' feature. It's a very useful feature, but more websites are requiring a special character alongside uppercase/lowercase letters, and numbers. For a couple of websites now I've had to add in a special character myself to the auto-generated password, and then save the result.

It would be quite an easy fix. I would love to get involved in making that fix, if the relevant part is open-source. However, as there are security considerations, it might not be....

If not it's still worth getting in touch!

All the best, Jack Murphy

p.s what other ways are there for an early-career software developer to get involved with mozilla? (UK based)

Hi there, My name's Jack Murphy. I have a recommendation for a feature on Firefox, but I'm also building my portfolio as an entry-level software engineer. So, the improvement Firefox needs to make is that a special character needs to be inserted in the 'randomised password' feature. It's a very useful feature, but more websites are requiring a special character alongside uppercase/lowercase letters, and numbers. For a couple of websites now I've had to add in a special character myself to the auto-generated password, and then save the result. It would be quite an easy fix. I would love to get involved in making that fix, if the relevant part is open-source. However, as there are security considerations, it might not be.... If not it's still worth getting in touch! All the best, Jack Murphy p.s what other ways are there for an early-career software developer to get involved with mozilla? (UK based)

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Hi there,

No I didn't, but I can't see where I would post it on that website?

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lilmanjak said

p.s what other ways are there for an early-career software developer to get involved with mozilla? (UK based)

https://www.mozilla.org/careers/listings/

You could help out with patches and such for Firefox in bugzilla.mozilla.org

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Firefox always shows the generated password and you can add special characters yourself if necessary or required, that is how it currently is supposed to work.