1228737 - password manager nonfunctional in version 2.39

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1188348

(SeaMonkey :: Passwords & Permissions, defect)

Description

[Peter Febbroriello]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 SeaMonkey/2.38
Build ID: 20150923195647

Steps to reproduce:

no passwords show in password manager
when selecting "show passwords only", list is empty
when selecting "update password" or store new password", nothing stored

Comment 1

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Related to or DUP of "Bug 1188348 - data manager: domains invisible for Permissions, Preferences, Passwords"? but that one started with 2.39

@reporter:
What localization (User Interface language) did you install?

Comment 2

[Peter Febbroriello]

windows 7
only with 2.39--rolling back to 2.38 everything works as normal all passwords intact
Same problem on 3 machines, 2 run Win 7 pro and one uses win 7 home premium, all have same problem.
installed malwarebytes, AVG, Avast on the Win 7 pro machines but NOT on the win 7 home premium machine.
Using RDP (remote desktop) on the win 7 pro machines. 
No other software installed that is common to all.

Comment 3

[Peter Febbroriello]

windows 7
only with 2.39--rolling back to 2.38 everything works as normal all passwords intact, (files undamaged)
Same problem on 3 machines, 2 run Win 7 pro and one uses win 7 home premium, all have same problem.
installed malwarebytes, AVG, Avast on the Win 7 pro machines but NOT on the win 7 home premium machine.
Using RDP (remote desktop) on the win 7 pro machines. 
No other software installed that is common to all.
2.39 seems to be saving passwords using the JSON file, but it doesn't show up in the sqlite system when rolling back to 2.38 ie searching for bugzilla comes up blank.

Comment 4

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Reporter told me by PM that he uses English localization

@reporter: Please always tell information in bug report comments instead of private mail.

Comment 5

[Jim Booth]

Confirming I have the same problem just started (regressed) on Seamonkey 2.39(32 bit) running on Windows 10 (64-bit). 
Password manager appears blank (Tools/Password Manager/Manage Stored Passwords), yet it supplies most remembered passwords correctly when logging in to sites.

Comment 6

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

Even the unfixed version of Data Manager in Bug 1188348 shows passwords for me. Could you try a fresh profile and see if the error goes away. Do you have saved passwords for hosts without domains or ip addresses?

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0 SeaMonkey/2.42a1

Comment 7

[Peter Febbroriello]

Yes, it saves new passwords but the old ones are all invisible. It seems to know them when needed, so the new JSON system must have imported them from the SQLITE file. You just can't SEE them anymore! I can't update to 2.39 until this gets fixed. Even if it amounted to decoding the file and saving the data in human readable form so that it could be re-loaded by hand...

Comment 8

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

Is a dictionary installed? Bug 1208971 was only fixed for 2.41 and up. 

Please check that the "spellchecker.dictionary" preference exists in about:config. It does not matter if it only contains a blank string. It just needs to be there.

Comment 9

[forums]

I have the same problem in Seamonkey 2.40 on Macintosh - french version
and French spellchecker.dictionary exist
Can't no more manage the passwords,...
I returned to seamonkey 2.38

Will this bug be fixed in Seamonkey 2.41 ?

Comment 10

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

>> Will this bug be fixed in Seamonkey 2.41 ?

If it is Bug 1188348 then it will be fixed in 2.45.

Does chrome://passwordmgr/content/passwordManager.xul work eg. show your passwords?

Comment 11

[forums]

Yes, with this link, i can admin my passwords.

Comment 12

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

I think we can safely close this one as a duplicate. If someone does not agree please reopen.