Closed Bug 1954363 Opened 1 months ago Closed 1 month ago

The Primary Password prompt is displayed when open about:preferences

Categories

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Password Manager
Version:
Firefox 136
Platform:
Desktop
Windows 11
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1902852
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox-esr115 --- unaffected
firefox-esr128 --- unaffected
firefox136 --- affected
firefox137 --- affected
firefox138 --- affected

People

(Reporter: alice0775, Unassigned)

Details

If you set a primary password in Firefox136.0.1 at least once and then update to 136.0.2 or 137.0b6/Nightly138.0a1, even if Bug 1946121 is fixed, the Primary Password prompt is displayed when open about:preferences.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Create new profile and start Firefox136.0.1 with the profile (i.e., Completely clean profile, no firefox accont and sync)

  2. Set Primary Password from about:preferences#privacy

  3. Restart Browser. And cancel if Primary Password prompted.

  4. Quit Browser

  5. Emulate update from Firefox 136.0.1 to 136.0.2 (or 137/138).
    Start latest build 136.0.2(*1) or Beta137.0b6 / Nightly138.0a1 which bug 1946121 has been fixed.
    (*1) Build from treeherder.mozilla.org/jobs?repo=mozilla-release

  6. Open about:preferences

Actual results:
The Primary Password prompt is displayed.

Expected results:
The Primary Password prompt should not is displayed.

FWIW, deleting the signon.management.page.os-auth.optout entry in prefs.js solves this problem.

This has been a problem for a while, bug 1915672 only temporarily hid this problem by asking for the primary password on startup.

(128esr is marked as unaffected for this bug, I believe this is a mistake, and the same issue affects 128esr.)

No longer blocks: 1946121
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 1 month ago
Duplicate of bug: 1902852
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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