456661 - Firefox 3.0.1 not remembering passwords

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

This was originally filed by Ed ([e-mail]) as bug 454708. Unfortunately it mutated into fixing a different problem, so I'm filing this to track the original problem.

From bug 454708 comment 0:
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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US;
rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US;
rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1

Ever since upgrading, the new Firefox is not remembering passwords or asking if
I want to. My preferences are set to REMEMBER PASSWORDS FOR SITES and there are
no exceptions in the EXCEPTIONS box.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.I type user name and password for any site, paypal, wachovia, etc. 
2. It takes me to the logged in site without asking if I want the password
remembered.
3.
Actual Results:  
It happens at every site that requires a password.

Comment 1

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Ed:

If you can still reproduce this, please enable debugging per https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox:Password_Manager_Debugging and attach here.

Comment 2

[Ronny Kämpfe]

Hello, I have the sam problem after upgrading from XULRunner 1.9.0.1 to 1.9.0.2 on Ubuntu, no passwords are saved and the saved passwords list is empty. When visiting a site with saved password, following happens in error console.

Debug:
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Login Manager: onStateChange accepted: req = about:blank, flags = 0x30004
Login Manager: domEventListener: got event DOMContentLoaded
Login Manager: Counting logins matching host: http://www.discountzac.de, formSubmitURL: , httpRealm: null
Login Manager: No alternate nsILoginManagerStorage registered
PwMgr Storage: Checking file signons3.txt (SignonFileName3)
PwMgr Storage: Reading passwords from /home/rka/.mozilla/firefox/ffsmb9fd.default/signons3.txt
Login Manager: Initialization of storage component failed: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIScriptableUnicodeConverter.ConvertToUnicode]"  nsresult: "0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.2/components/storage-Legacy.js :: anonymous :: line 853"  data: no]
Fehler: this._storage is null
Quelldatei: file:///usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.2/components/nsLoginManager.js
Zeile: 479
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this._storage is null   - this is the problem; when downgrading to 1.9.0.1 everything works fine.

Comment 3

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

concerning the error console output this seems to be a dupe of Bug 454993.

Comment 4

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Comment 2 is bug 454993 which started in 3.0.2 (Gecko1.9.0.2). _this_ bug is about a pre-existing problem in 3.0.1 for which we don't have a lot of information.

Comment 5

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

[e-mail], are you still experiencing this bug? Without the requested debug information, there's nothing we can do and this bug will end up being closed.

Comment 6

[rubrtoe]

All of the browsers do this, Opera, firefox, IE. none reliably come up with the password dialog after a few times. One of these assbag companies needs to realize this and put a "save password" button link prominently in the browser for us to click and override the failure and be able to store the password. this should be taken off auto and made manual because A) it doesn't work most of the time in any browser I know of or B) it only works WHEN I DON"T WANT TO SAVE THE PASSWORD! This is across all browsers. one browser that is better could show it is better and fix this garbage. So what happened today is I reinstalled firefox (5 > 5.01)to get this feature to work again and it did, ONCE! then it stopped working. Apparently if I click the x in the "save password" dialog box,  it turns the entire feature off without telling me. Then I go into options to try to turn it back on but the only thin I see is "remember passwords for sites" which is still checked. so I unchecked it (in explorer this sometimes works if something is checked and not working, unchecking it makes it work)and it didn't work. so I rechecked it and signed on to something else and the dialog still didn't come up again. SO WARNING< NEVER CLICK THE X in the remember password box.
Half this whit in all these browsers does not work. I just wish that one of them would get it's **** together, get decent programmers with common sense and build good **** the proper way instead of all of this **** garbage that doesn't work. I mean firefox just copied the same **** for passwords as IE has and it doesn't work either. GET A MANUAL PASSWORD SAVE BUTTON IN FIREFOX! quit **** around with **** and make this **** useable, you ****.