186276 - Install of 1.3a1 discards some of my personal certificates

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 182607

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, defect)

Description

[Philip Gladstone]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

I have been using S/MIME for a number of years. I have a number of personal
certificates (most of which have expired). I upgraded from 1.0 to 1.3a1 and the
PSM shows that this process has lost most of my certificates. In particular, my
current (unexpired) certificate has been lost. [I use Thawte Freemail certificates].

By the way, I noticed similar behavior on another system when I upgraded to 1.2
(from 1.0), but since I had been having other significant problems with the PSM,
I put it down to a result of those problems [I tried to install a hardware
security device (an iButton), but it didn't work. Once I unsintalled the
iButton, I was unable to add certificates into the software security device].
Please note that the problems described in this paragraph are on a different
system to that 1.3a1 problems.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
I ended up with two certificates

Expected Results:  
I should have had around 5 certificates.

Comment 1

[John Unruh]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 182607 ***

Comment 2

[John Unruh]

Verified dupe.