269743 - Passwords in Password Manager too easy to access, while Master Password feature is too inflexible

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 269744

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Reuben Chew]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

If I don't set a Master Password, the passwords in the Password Manager are
easily viewable. 

If I set the Master Password though, although the passwords are viewable, but I
need to enter the master password whenever I type into a form for the first
time, which is not desired. For example, if my dad is using the computer and
there's a master password set, and he wants to login to his Yahoo! account, it
will keep prompting him for a Master Password which he has no clue about. For
every letter he types, the Master Password prompts him.

What I propose is a configuration of the Master Password thus making it more
flexible. For example:

------------Master Password-----------
Prompt for Master Password when:
 (checkbox) Entering web forms for the first time
 (checkbox) Password Manager
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That way everyone will be happy, my dad can use his Yahoo!, and I don't need to
worry about someone accessing my passwords.

Also, this problem affects the Mozilla Suite and Mozilla Thunderbird as well.

Reproducible: Always
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Actual Results:  
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Expected Results:  
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Comment 1

[Reuben Chew]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 269744 ***