1928755 - Primary Password multiple prompts in new Version 132.0

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Dan]

Attachment: Primary Password.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:132.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/132.0

Steps to reproduce:

The Primary Password log in repeatedly pops up, ever after inputting the correct password. Started with update to version 132

Actual results:

Popup to input master password keeps reappearing, even though master password was input. Popup happens randomly.

Expected results:

Popup should not keep popping up after input of master password

Comment 1

[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 correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[oneofthedamons]

I too am affected by this. Confirm it raised its head in 132 and persists in 133 Beta. The Primary Password prompt reoccurs around 3 hours after the previous prompting, during the same session, on both Windows and MacOS.

Comment 3

[Dan]

Still occurring. Will this issue be fixed?

Comment 4

[oneofthedamons]

The issue is quite intermittent for me. I haven't had a recurrence since my post 5 days ago.

Comment 8

[Kokujou]

the prompt always happens whenever you have a password field whether it's visible or invisible.
i'm stating this because on some pages even without a visible password fields i get those popups, e.g. i'm currenty playing hero wars, whenever i load the game - popup.
no matter how much you reload, it always comes.

fix is easy: ask it once, and then only if you explicitly request it. ways to explicitly request it:

1. introduce a password icon in the address bar that shows that your passwords are currently locked
2. in a password field in the context menu or in the autocomplete dropdown introduce an item "enter primary password"

Comment 12

[Dan]

Not sure why there's been a spat of "duplicate...." entires here, but this issue is not solved. Keeps happening and is super annoying.

Comment 13

[Micah [:mtigley] (she/her)]

Thanks for the report! It seems there are a few recent issues that are similar in nature. We are currently trying to narrow down the cause.

Comment 14

[Johannes]

Root cause issue tracked in 1940161