[throwaway0032]

One thing I miss from the 90s are the built in user/password dialog that enabled me to easily remember passwords.

It still exists, but most sites prefer to use their own HTML based logins because it "looks ugly".

Imagine if sites used the built in dialog; We would have a much more secure web. We would not have a need for dedicated password managers and would probably have found a low effort way of integrating auto generated passwords.

[jakub_g]

Do you mean the one which popped up from the browser UI before anything on the page has loaded? (aka "HTTP authentication")

Wasn't this abysmal? You navigate to some page, and out of nowhere it asks you for login, before you even see any content of the page. (Kind of like logging via terminal)

[throwaway0032]

It wasn't an optimal solution, but it also didn't change much from the first implementation.

I think that if it had been given a bit more attention and made it more customizable, it could have evolved into something good enough to replace today's login form.

[JimDabell]

You can’t log people out or switch users with HTTP auth. Once the browser knows you have valid credentials, it sends them with every request and the site can’t stop it from doing so.

[Paianni]

You mean Basic HTTP Authentication? I wouldn't say Chrome's dialog looks 'ugly'.

[aembleton]

Firefox seems to manage this with current HTML based logins.