1361883 - Repeated master password prompt when dialog is cancelled

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1348791

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[John Wiersba]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:53.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/53.0
Build ID: 20170413192749

Steps to reproduce:

Firefox 53.0 on Windows 7, 64-bit (latest); also on Windows 8.1
Created new profile.
Visited weblogin.umich.edu
Entered my creds and logged in.
Saved my creds.
Went to Security dialog and created master password
Logged out and restarted Firefox
Went back to weblogin.umich.edu
Clicked in password field
Was prompted for master password
Tried to cancel
See actual results below


Actual results:

Tried to cancel master password prompt
The dialog flashed shut and then immediately opened again
This loop continued indefinitely until I entered the master password correctly
I could not make the master password prompt go away, with either the Cancel button or the X (to close the master password dialog window)
I could not shutdown Firefox, except with Task Manager by killing it
I don't know if this is a problem with the javascript on weblogin.umich.edu (being triggered again and again to pop up the master password prompt dialog) or if it's a bug in Firefox
I have not seen this on any other site.


Expected results:

The master password dialog should have closed (and stayed shut) when I cancelled it
Then I could manually enter my creds into the User/Password fields, **without using the master-password-encrypted password database.

Comment 1

[John Wiersba]

This bug does not appear to affect Firefox 53.0 on Linux.

Comment 2

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

This is fixed in Nightly now