Master password doesn't lock browser if you click cancel.
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(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)
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(Reporter: pasmussen1408, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4692.99 Safari/537.36
Steps to reproduce:
I enabled "Use a Primary Password" under the "Logins and Passwords" section in the page "about:preferences#privacy". When you type a password and close the browser, you will be prompted to type the password next time you open the browser. Here, you can simply click cancel.
Actual results:
Clicking "Cancel" results in the browser giving you access to all features I've tested. This includes general browsing, looking at saved bookmarks and changing settings, however turning off the master password does require you to type it in though - this time you can't just cick cancel again.
Expected results:
It shouldn't have let me use the browser if I'm prompted to type a password before it lets me use the browser.
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Comment 1•3 years ago
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The primary password is used to un-encrypt your passwords, it is not a "lock" on Firefox or any data other than passwords. If the primary password is being requested when you start Firefox then you probably have Firefox Sync enabled and it needs you to unlock the Sync password. If you cancel the primary password then it just doesn't sync, but everything else will work.
If you have a shared computer and need to protect your bookmarks and other files from other users then you should use separate user accounts in the operating system.
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