Closed Bug 1275563 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

After restarting Firefox from Firefox, the master password for SSD is not remembered

Categories

(Core :: Security: PSM, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Security: PSM
Version:
45 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: vincent-moz, Unassigned)

Details

Component: Untriaged → Password Manager
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Build ID: 20160507231935

Steps to reproduce:

Restart Firefox from the menu: File → Restart.


Actual results:

Firefox asks me for the master password for the SSD.


Expected results:

Firefox should have remembered the password.
I believe this is the expected behaviour as a new process is spawned. I'm not sure if there's a secure way to do what you propose.
Component: Password Manager → Security: PSM
Product: Toolkit → Core
I agree with Matt - there's no safe way to do this.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
This is annoying because bug 1014979 was closed as WONTFIX, suggesting that a restart could be used as a workaround with no drawbacks.

As possible solutions:
  * The two processes could communicate before the old one quits.
  * Or there could be a (user-side) PSM daemon.
  * Or use some other service on the machine (like Gnome Keyring - bug 309807?).
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