1199607 - XMPP account causes extra master password prompt which cannot be canceled

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Instant Messaging, defect)

Description

[Onno Ekker [:nONoNonO UTC+1]]

After I've added an XMPP account to Thunderbird, I get an extra prompt for my master password when starting Thunderbird. This is probably related to bug 177175.

Normally I can Cancel the extra prompts and I only need to type the password in the first prompt. For my XMPP account however, if I cancel the prompt, I get prompted to enter the password for the XMPP user.
If I leave the extra prompt empty and click OK, the XMPP account does find the password and uses it to login.

Only problem is that I'm used to clicking Cancel instead of OK, because this also works when there's a partial password in the input field, which sometimes happens when I start typing the password and another password prompt appears and steals focus.

Comment 1

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

I wonder if this is related to the way we attempt to synchronously initialize the password manager (done in bug 1030059).

Comment 2

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Is this still an issue?

Comment 3

[Onno Ekker [:nONoNonO UTC+1]]

I'm sorry, but i don't have access to the XMPP-account anymore and from what I read, I think Google Talk doesn't use XMPP anymore either.

Comment 4

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Still an issue according to bug 584014 comment #80.

Comment 5

[Simon Crowder]

I don't believe this has anything to do with the XMPP account. It's a general problem.

The bug with multiple master-password dialogs opening on startup is 18 years old!!!
See -> bug 177175

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Onno Ekker [:nONoNonO UTC+1] from comment #0)

After I've added an XMPP account to Thunderbird, I get an extra prompt for
my master password when starting Thunderbird. This is probably related to
bug 177175.

I doubt that relief will ever come from bug 177175 and friends.