260648 - "Never This Site" setting could not be reversed

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Moueen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

when I select "never this site", the setting cannot be reversed. i.e. FF will
not promt me to remeber the user name and password (as expected), but when I go to:

Tools->Options->Privacy->Passwords->View->Never Saved

There is nothing there. I cannot reverse the setting "Never this site".
This occured with Gmail. Even after deleting both accounts from the saved in the
password manager, the setting is still active. I have reproduced the bug using
the back up of my "signons.txt" file with the corresponding "key3.db".

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a website (Gmail) and enter a user name & password
2. Choose "Never This Site" when prompted
3. The setting cannot be reversed thru
Tools->Options->Privacy->Passwords->View->Never Saved

Actual Results:  
The setting could not be reversed. The other possibility is that it may be due
to some error for using a backed up copy of the "signons.txt" file with the
corresponding "key3.db" file. The files are working fine so that is unlikely.

Expected Results:  
The site should appear in 
Tools->Options->Privacy->Passwords->View->Never Saved
and I should be able to reverse the setting "Never This Site".

Using a customized version of FireFox. The following files were customized
(please let me know if you need them and I will email them to you. I will try to
attach the files to the bug in a zipped file):
bookmarks.html
localstore.rdf
cookperm.txt

en-US.jar

firefox.js
all.js

Comment 1

[Moueen]

Attachment: Only the the customized files from "en-US.xpi" and "browser.xpi"

The customized files in their folders. All non-customized files were deleted in
the attached file to save space. To use thes, place the files in an "unzipped"
"en-US.xpi" and "browser.xpi", rezip and use instead of the origninal xpi
files. I used 7z to create a self installation (using the same files which come
with the original package).

Comment 2

[Moueen]

I have tried to use the bookmarklet "remember password" from:
http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html
and the extension "Always Remember Password" from:
http://extensions.roachfiend.com/index.php

to no avail.

Comment 3

[Moueen]

I have tried all possible ways and I agree with the comment from Daniel:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260296#c2

Gmail may be responsible for this. It would be nice to have an extension to
overcome that.

Please feal free to close this bug.

Thank you

Comment 4

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

The bookmarklets alter the DOM of the main frame, but don't walk into subframes.
Workaround is to right-click on the login frame, select "This Frame", then "Open
frame in new window". On the new window the bookmarklet will work.