253524 - Firefox import migrates email passwords from Mozilla

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Migration, defect)

Description

[Neil Turner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

When importing settings and passwords on the first run of a freshly installed
copy of Firefox from Mozilla (1.5), as well as importing passwords for web
sites, passwords for several IMAP accounts that I had were also imported.
Firefox isn't an email client so I believe this is incorrect behaviour.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a copy of Mozilla Browser Suite 1.x
2. In Mozilla Mail, add one or more email accounts and save the passwords for them
3. Install a copy of Firefox
4. When Firefox is first run, choose to import passwords from Mozilla 1.x
5. Open Tools>Options>Privacy>Passwords>View Saved Passwords
Actual Results:  
Mail passwords have also been imported.

Expected Results:  
Only passwords for web sites should have been imported.

This was with a new installation of Firefox with a fresh profile. And I
apologise if this seems like a pedantic bug.

Comment 1

[Neil Turner]

Also tried Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7)
Gecko/20040727 Firefox/0.9.1+ . Importing passwords from Mozilla 1.x did not
import the mail passwords but the View Saved Passwords list view was blank until
a restart of Firefox.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Markus Lindström]

Confirming bug as report is well done, according to Bugzilla guidelines. I will
attempt to reproduce this bug sometime this week.

Comment 4

[José Jeria]

You should confirm though when you can reproduce the issue

Comment 5

[Neil Turner]

Managed to reproduce this on:

Firefox:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050719 Red
Hat/1.0.6-1.4.1 Firefox/1.0.6

Mozilla Suite:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050719 Red
Hat/1.7.10-1.4.1

Therefore changing OS to 'All' as it is not a platform-specific bug. Will test
on Mac OS X and on Gecko 1.8 builds when I get the chance.

Comment 6

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Closing this bug since this migration code was removed in bug 679016.

Thanks for the report.