Closed Bug 384525 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

If cancel Master Password prompt, must restart Firefox to access passwords

Categories

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 381164

People

(Reporter: morac, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: regression)

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070614 Minefield/3.0a6pre Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070614 Minefield/3.0a6pre If the Master Password prompt is canceled, then the username and password information for stored passwords is unavailable, even if the user enters the master password to show the passwords. New username/passwords will be visible, but the old ones will not until the user restarts Firefox and then correctly enters the master password. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Firefox and when the master password prompt appears, keep hitting escape until it goes away. 2. Show the passwords and click show password and enter the master password. 3. Exit out of the options and go back in. Actual Results: All the stored passwords show blank for the username and password. Expected Results: Once the user logs in with the master password, the username and password information should be available. It appears that the username/password data is loaded once and if the master password is not available at that time, Firefox won't try to load it again. This is somewhat confusing since the user might accidentally cancel the master password prompt and then after prompted again for the master password see all the username/password data as being blank and assume it has been deleted.
Component: Security → Password Manager
Flags: blocking-firefox3?
QA Contact: firefox → password.manager
Yeah, this is basically the same issue as 381164. The code is trying to decrypt everything once, at startup, so if something fails it won't ever try again. Known issue, and this particular flavor of it will be fixed as well.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Clearing blocking flag as 381164 already blocks ...
Flags: blocking-firefox3?
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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