i still see this behavior in firefox. the save password popup disappears by the time the page is loaded. and it baffles me every time how that is supposed to be useful.
The stupid thing is that it already is async and not locking up like it was in the very old days op refers to. They were just so clever as to add a timeout after which that dialog closes, regardless of whether the page actually finished loading. So on a slower page you end up with the popup disappearing while the page is still (mostly) blank and you don't know yet whether the credentials were correct.
I think just clicking in a blank spot (or the text fields) in that dialog stops the timeout, but it's one of these things I'm not actually sure about and it's almost like a cargo cult kind of ritual...
It’s like that Teams pop up that informs you that a colleague started a meeting, the one that always disappears after you finish typing your sentence and start to move your mouse towards it.
The most amusing (for me) behaviour is what OR I need to press Csncel everytime ( my preffered bahaviour, honestly, I don't save passwords) OR never see the dialog again (I'm totally okay with saving the pass for some LAN devices which would be never acessible from the net ever - but I can't)
I think just clicking in a blank spot (or the text fields) in that dialog stops the timeout, but it's one of these things I'm not actually sure about and it's almost like a cargo cult kind of ritual...