220530 - user_pref("signon.SignonFileName",..) ignores path setting, doesn't work at all.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 220529

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Richey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925

If I define an alternate location for the password file, it is ignored by
Mozilla (and Firebird, by the way). Entered paths (example:
user_pref("signon.SignonFileName", "C:\\Data\\reg\\61256111.s"); ) are ignored
completely.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. add an alternate path for signon.txt or the Mozilla password file in user.js
2. run Mozilla or Firebird
3. enter a web page of which a password was already stored

Actual Results:  
no password is automatically entered (or saved if you agree to save it after
re-entering it). The setting is ignored completely; newly entered passwords go
to "nowhere".

Expected Results:  
evaluate the user.js setting (also if it contains a path) and work as intended
(enter saved passwords and save them to the configured password file)

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22529 ***

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

Reopen. Duped to wrong bug.

Comment 3

[Bill Mason]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 220529 ***

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change