450732 - the master password box of security device appears multiple times on startup

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 356097

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Lefty]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); cs; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); cs; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1

When I start firefox, the security device box requiring master password appears multiple times. When I am quick enough I must fill only 1 password, but when more tabs requiring passwords gets loaded before that, more boxes appear. Its quite annoying. I tried it on 3.1_alpha1 too and it still "works" this way (i didn't much investigations as it crashed almost immediately after startup).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set master password and save some passwords
2. Open several tabs requiring saved password
3. Restart firefox and and wait a while before entering the password
Actual Results:  
Several windows requiring master password appear.

Expected Results:  
Only one window should appear.

This bug is there quite a long time. It was even in Firefox 2. I use precompiled gentoo package with 32bit firefox as I use x86_64 architecture (its official firefox from http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/ without application-related patches).

Comment 2

[Ulrich Windl]

I'd like to re-open: In Firefox 17.0.5 ESR on Windows, multiple password prompts still appear (when restoring the previous tab list). To make matters worse, if one box is filled in and confirmed, the same box seems to ask for the password again, because multiple password popups are displayed on exactly the same position (Proof by moving the top box). I also feel worried that some application could forge these boxes, getting the master password.
I suggest as first method to decorate the popup with the reason why (i.e.: who requests it) the password is needed. I'm surprised that after five years of heavy discussion this issue is still unsolved something like 15 major releases later.