219990 - user_pref("signon.expireMasterPassword", true) makes new window fail

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Security, defect)

Description

[Klaus Kusche]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030831
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030831

Split from bug 151443 on request of the bug owner:

After upgrading from 1.2 to 1.3, 1.4 or 1.5beta, the electronic banking
application I use failed: When logging on, a new window opened as before, but
instead of starting the Javascript application in the new window, the new window
remained blank, no content was loaded. Connection is over https.

After some investigation, I found out that the problam was caused by the line
user_pref("signon.expireMasterPassword", true); 
in my prefs.js file: After deleting this line or setting it to false, the
banking application worked fine (as it did in 1.2).

Questions:
* How did this line come into my prefs.js (I have no idea!)?
* Why does it make loading the application fail?
* What does this option mean or control, and to which option in the prefs dialog
does it correspond?
* Shouldn't mozilla at least display some kind of error message?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start your mozilla with the pref file entry given above (and with keep-alive
and pipelining off!).
2. Go to the URL above.
3. Log in with one of the demo accounts provided.
Actual Results:  
A new window comes up, but remains empty.

Expected Results:  
The banking application should start in the new window.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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