User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1 Some background: For over a year I used Mozilla 1.X (most recently version 1.7). A couple of days ago I installed Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1. I chose to import settings, bookmarks, etc. from Mozilla including my stored passwords. When I chose to add a password to Firefox's password manager for the first time it prompted me for my Master Password. I did not turn on Master Password in Firefox and it was disabled in Mozilla 1.7. I remember many months ago turning on the Master Password in Mozilla and using it for a while. But I turned it off. I am wondering if there was some residual settings in Mozilla that Firefox imported which enabled the Master Password in Firefox when I installed the first time. If so then this is a bug. To fix the problem manually: I uninstalled Mozilla Firefox. Deleted my Firefox profile folder and reinstalled. Did not import anything this time. Problem is fixed. No more Master Password. Hope this helps. Gravy Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.

I've been using Mozilla for a long time too. I used intermittently used Phoenix 0.5 through Firefox 0.8, and yesterday grabbed the official 0.9.1 zip build. I told it to import my old Phoenix/Firebird settings (not Mozilla). Today I compiled my own debug build, and tried to reproduce bug #250209, when I was prompted for the "master password for the Software Security Device". I have never, to the best of my knowledge, enabled the Master Password in Mozilla (presently using 1.8a2).

There is a way to fix it through here: chrome://pippki/content/pref-masterpass.xul All of these things are documented here: http://www.squarefree.com/archives/000007.html David

(In reply to comment #0) > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1 > Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1 > > Some background: > For over a year I used Mozilla 1.X (most recently version 1.7). A couple of days > ago I installed Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1. I chose to import settings, bookmarks, > etc. from Mozilla including my stored passwords. When I chose to add a password > to Firefox's password manager for the first time it prompted me for my Master > Password. I did not turn on Master Password in Firefox and it was disabled in > Mozilla 1.7. > > I remember many months ago turning on the Master Password in Mozilla and using > it for a while. But I turned it off. I am wondering if there was some residual > settings in Mozilla that Firefox imported which enabled the Master Password in > Firefox when I installed the first time. If so then this is a bug. > > To fix the problem manually: > I uninstalled Mozilla Firefox. Deleted my Firefox profile folder and > reinstalled. Did not import anything this time. Problem is fixed. No more Master > Password. > > Hope this helps. > > Gravy > > Reproducible: Didn't try > Steps to Reproduce: > 1. > 2. > 3. I spent several hours on identical symptoms with 0.9.3 today. The profile was imported from Mozilla 1.7. I tried the .xul mentioned by David Grant, but you can't reset the master password without knowing what the old password was. In my case there never was one. What I found was that this was tied to an imported digital certificate. It was a valid certificate in Mozilla, and it showed up in "Other People's" in the Certificate Manager. After I removed the certificate the existing password filed in the change master password dialog shows "not set" where it was showing a field for text entry. I'm not seeing a "show passwords" button in the Password Manager at this point. Maybe after a reboot...

I have to re-enter password each time I open browser but it does not happen with internet explorer.it used to just ask for password once a day.Whats the fix?I'm running xp pro,with both service patches and pc cillan for the antivirus

Mass edit: Changing QA to default QA Contact

There's not really any data here to work with, and I've never seen the problem. --> WORKSFORME.

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