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Re:Show HN: Password validity hinting by sakai on Saturday March 10, 2012 @05:57PM (#3688960)
On Mac OS X most recent version of Firefox it sometimes shows the shape to the right as entirely darkened and other times not when I type "inconsequential". Any reason for this?
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Re:Show HN: Password validity hinting by colonelxc on Saturday March 10, 2012 @06:17PM (#3689020)
Not the author, but from the description, you can only request one check at a time. When you get the results of your current check back, you get a new token.

I'm guessing that the server got too busy to serve a request, either the last request, or any previous one, so that you broke the token chain. Another possibility could be a bug with the timing of events, such that it doesn't realize the field has changed.

The author seems to be lurking around here, maybe he'll have a better idea.

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Re:Show HN: Password validity hinting by latitude on Saturday March 10, 2012 @07:14PM (#3689147)
Yep, it's probably the server creaking under the load indeed.
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