1748911 - Multiple primary password manager prompts

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect, P3)

Description

[stephen]

Attachment: ff.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:95.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/95.0

Steps to reproduce:

This issue can be found on multiple pages, but the specific page that annoys me the most is the login page for Microsoft teams.

Steps

1. Save password to Microsoft teams in the password manager.
2. Turn on the master password feature
3. Start to login to Microsoft teams

Actual results:

At each step of the login process the master password prompt appears as long as you do not enter the password. Clicking "cancel" just causes it to come back as soon as the teams login goes to a different page. This means that you have to click cancel at least 5 times to just get through the teams login.

See the attached image for each screen in the login process where I had to click "cancel"

Expected results:

Clicking "cancel" on the master password prompt should stop it from asking for your password.

Comment 1

[stephen]

I did not realize the name of the prompt had changed.

Comment 2

[stephen]

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/primary-password-replacing-master-password

So please disregard the use of "master" in the above description. The dialog box now reads "primary"

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Toolkit::Password Manager' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 4

[jj2006]

This happens on many pages, including Bugzilla itself: if you put in a bad password, the dialog box appears 4 (!) times.
It is a major nuisance and should be fixed. Although I have activated the password manager, there are many pages that I would like to keep "manual", mostly because I remember the password anyway. It is unacceptable that I have to click multiple times to satisfy the password manager's strange needs.

As a suggestion: the dialog might offer to exclude the page from those stored in the password manager.