Comment 73 for bug 480671

(In reply to :Gavin Sharp (email <email address hidden>) from comment #64)

> This bug has nothing to do with Firefox developers deciding we hate
> case-sensitive passwords - you can read the entire rationale in bug 447788.
> Some sites were "broken" before that change, and that change fixed them. Now
> other sites are broken, and we should fix those too.

First, I want to say that I am very happy that Gavin fixed this :-)
My comment about developers hating case-sensitive passwords was actually in reference to bug 47594, which this one is technically a duplicate of. In Comment #2, as he was marking the bug WONTFIX, Justin said:
> This is probably partially a result of the fix for bug 447788.
>
> We're kind of screwed no matter which way we do things, but I think the
> current behavior is better. Having multiple accounts (with different
> passwords) that differ only in case is already full of fail for a multitude
> of reasons, so I'm not really inclined to want to support that use-case.

Admittedly, once THIS bug got opened, the discussion was much more positive... (Come to think of it, that appears to have largely been due to Gavin's influence as well :-) )