1350318 - Should forget master password after a timeout

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 266778

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Logins, Passwords and Form Fill, defect)

Description

[Robert Pollak]

As described in a recent LWN article about password managers [1], "the issue [with Firefox] is that browsers are generally always open, so the vault is always unlocked".

So I suggest to add a timeout setting, s.t. Firefox forgets the master password after some time.

I found the extension "Master Password Reset" [2], but unfortunately it is marked as using "legacy technology" [3].

(I have filed a separate corresponding bug for desktop Firefox: [4])

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/714473/
[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/de/android/addon/master-password-reset/
[3] https://github.com/Noitidart/Master-Password-Reset/issues/1
[4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1348274

Comment 1

[Robert Pollak]

Ah, the mentioned extension is off-topic, because it does not provide a timeout.

Comment 3

[Robert Pollak]

Since there is no about:config pref to set such a timeout for Android Firefox (or is there?), I think this is not a duplicate of bug 266778.