332605 - Password Manager prompt unusable if browser window is minimized

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Ilya Gulko]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Password Manager master password prompt is unusable (cannot type in a password) if browser window is minimized.

May depend on web site focusing username field, but unsure of this.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set a master password.
2. Save a login/password pair for a web site.
3. Restart Firefox.
4. Navigate to the web page with the login/password fields. Minimize the browser window before the page loads.
5. Try to type in a password. You can only press OK or Cancel.
Actual Results:  
Cannot enter password or restore browser window until Cancel has been press.

Expected Results:  
One of the following:
-- Able to type in a password.
or
-- Prompt doesn't appear until window is restored from minimized state.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

I could reproduce this once, only in 1.5.0.1.
Very hard to reproduce when you have a fast connection.
But mostly the master password prompt appeared on my desktop with a blinking cursor and then I had no problem filling in the mp.

Comment 2

[Ilya Gulko]

I think what may help reproduce this bug is to turn on settings that prevent an application from stealing focus. This can be done in two ways:

1) When you switch out of Firefox and into another application, hold down the Shift key. Windows makes it a lot harder for an application to steal focus when another one is receiving keyboard entry.

2) Adjust the ForegroundLockTimeout setting as described here: http://www.jsifaq.com/subF/TIP2900/rh2909.htm
(Can also be done with TweakUI: General: Focus.)

Comment 3

[Charli Li (winsxs)]

*** Bug 336572 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[u279076]

This bug does not happen on 2.0.0.4 for me.

Reporter, please update to 2.0.0.4 and try this again.  If it does not work, please comment on the bug.

If there is no comments posted in a week, this will bug will be closed as WORKSFORME.

Comment 5

[Ilya Gulko]

Still able to reproduce using 2.0.0.4 on XP SP2.

Comment 6

[u279076]

Using your "steps to reproduce" in the initial bug report, I cannot reproduce this.  Could you please provide us with a more detailed test case about how you reproduce this bug?

Thank you.

Comment 7

[u279076]

Reporter, could you please give us more details on how you are reproducing this bug?  Ideally, we would like a testcase made so that we can reproduce your given situation.  If you do not feel like you are capable of making a testcase, could you please give us more details so that we may create a testcase.

Thank you.