User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10 If somebody has a moment of unattended access to my PC, he/she can easily retrieve the password to my e-mail accounts (Tools - Options - Advanced - View password - button "Show Passwords"). The dialog "Are you sure you wish to show your passwords?" is superfluous, in any case it doesn't provide any additional security. Of course I know you can set a master password, but that also means I have to input the master password every time I start Thunderbird, which is inconvenient. For the convenience of not having to input a password everytime, I am quite willing to accept that somebody could sit behind my PC and read some of my e-mail, risking to be caught. However, now somebody can retrieve my password and use it to read my e-mail somewhere else, without any risk to get caught! That is not acceptable. Note that it is possible to view the passwords as a default, and many users may not even be aware of this. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Tools - Options - Advanced - View password - button "Show Passwords" 2. 3. Actual Results: The program shows the passwords by default. You can use a master password, but then you have to input the password every time thunderbird is started. Expected Results: There should be an option that the master password is required for just the viewing of the account passwords, and not fo sending/receiving mail etc. Protection against viewing of the passwords should be on by default, or the user should be made aware of this during installation.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 259996 ***

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