272779 - Password is remembered (maked as never for the site) when more than one browser window is opened

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Raymond E. Bailey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.8

When accessing a http/https sites, and more than one browser window is opened,
closing the first window, then using the secondary window to re-access the same
http/https site does not prompt for user/password information.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open 2 browser windows
2. Access an https site (say webmail) with first window, sign in with user and
password information.  Close window
3. enter URL for same site in the remaining open window, you will not be
prompted for user/password information again.

Actual Results:  
Not being prompted for user and password information.

Expected Results:  
Required to re-authenticate.

Comment 1

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

This is a result of a session cookie set by the web site, not remembered
passwords. Bug 117222 deals with the issue of limiting session cookie scope to
windows or sets of windows or tabs, which would produce your expected results here.