password to launch profile / browser
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(Toolkit :: Password Manager, enhancement)
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(Reporter: prom77, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 6.0.1; ru-ru; Redmi Note 3 Build/MMB29M) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/71.0.3578.141 Mobile Safari/537.36 XiaoMi/MiuiBrowser/11.1.7-g
Steps to reproduce:
Hello everyone, how can I send Firefox developers wishes for improving the functionality? I need that when the browser starts, it asks for a password to access it, if the application is entered incorrectly or canceled, the application closes. Previously, this was solved by installing a third-party extension + master password in the browser version 59. In new versions 60 and high, such an opportunity is missing or am I missing something?
Actual results:
what if I have a working computer, I’m not an administrator and I can’t change the configuration, but I want to use the browser privately, this is not specialized software
Expected results:
it would be ideal to have a built-in manager to protect the profile with a password when starting the browser, possibly based on the master password that is in the browser.
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Updated•5 years ago
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dude are you serious? did you find a duplicate of the problem 20 years ago?
this is a problem of privacy and there is no solution to it, why not pass this question to the guys for consideration? or one supposedly the smartest dude so decided that he doesn’t need it, so it doesn’t need everyone, huh?
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Comment 4•5 years ago
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Duping to bug 16489 is the correct resolution, as verified for example 5 months ago in bug 1555440, comment 4 and 9 months ago in bug 1523859, comment 1.
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Comment 5•5 years ago
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(In reply to Alex from comment #3)
this is a problem of privacy and there is no solution to it, why not pass this question to the guys for consideration? or one supposedly the smartest dude so decided that he doesn’t need it, so it doesn’t need everyone, huh?
The correct solution for real security is to use separate operating system accounts as that is the granularity that you can get some real protection from others that use your computer. Other solutions using the same operating system account would be inherently weak.
That is, when using the extension https://addons.thunderbird.net/ru/thunderbird/addon/master-password/ for Thunderbird, is this dangerous or for a competitor in the person of Chrome where there is a similar extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lockpw-free/kjcloihghgncbdkaafgkckbokjnehfmo is this also dangerous? Good joke guys.
It can just let users decide which bundle to use. And yes, I have an account, but I also want to use a password to launch my browser, as I still do in version 59. This is a silly position for developers.
It would make a great feature for the portable app IMO. I suppose there is no real need for it. On the OS use user profiles like Matthew N. mentioned and for the portable browser on a USB use a password protected 7zip to store the browser in. LUKS is disabled on many public computers, but a .7z with a pw will work just as well.
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