Closed Bug 561812 Opened 15 years ago Closed 13 years ago

"Unknown error" when trying to connect if no passwords are stored

Categories

(Cloud Services :: General, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 553400

People

(Reporter: zohn.joidberg, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 I use weave on a PC on which I don't want to store any passwords, but don't mind storing my bookmarks for convenience. So I set up firefox to always clear everything on close, including passwords. This leads to 2 annoying problems: 1) My weave account name remains stored. 2) Whenever I want to connect to weave to sync my bookmarks, I get a red "Unknown error" message in the weave preferences tab. The only way to get around it is to click "Use a different account" with a scary message about "losing all your data". I suppose the right thing to do might be to use my own profile with a master password and create a special launcher for it or always ask for profile selection (I don't know how to do that yet, but I suppose it is possible). But I really don't see why it doesn't just: 1) Ask for my pasword+passphrase or 2) Forget my account name, the same way it forgets all stored login names (when clearing passwords) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install weave 2.Set Firefox to clear everything including passwords on close 3.Restart firefox 4.Try to connect to weave Actual Results: Red "Unknown error" message Expected Results: 1) Ask for my pasword+passphrase or 2) Forget my account name, the same way it forgets all stored login names (when clearing passwords). Then ask for login+password when trying to connect.
Component: Needs Triage → General
QA Contact: needstriage → general
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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