280506 - Firefox fails on importing Mozilla password files with sites with multiple id fields

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Gábor Katona]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; hu-HU; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; hu-HU; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

When migrating a Mozilla password file to Firefox 1.0 and the password file has
entries with more than two remembered fields (e.g. bank page with id num, login
name and password), firefox misinterprets the pwd file and mixes up different
site infos.

A quote from Bug 222589, from Philip Wall:

"After converting the profile and copying blah.s to signons.txt, and successfully
using the PM on other sites, I found that FF only fills out the company name and
user ID at openair.com.

Interestingly, pulling up the Firefox PM shows that the openair.com site now had
two entries instead of one.  The second entry had the openair username and the
IMAP password.  (!)  The main entry for the IMAP connection had of course been
deleted, since FF isn't a mailreader."

I can confirm this. Mozilla 1.7+ has no problems with sites with more
than 2 login fields (e.g. id number, login name and password), but firafox fails
and mixes up data for different sites if one site has more than2 entries.

Suprisingly, copying Mozilla 1.7.5 password file to Thunderbird and looking at
the stored passwords list this data corruption problem is completetly missing!!
So I would suggest to check the password management code of Firefox against the
code in Thunderbird.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. import a Mozilla password file which has a remembered site with more than 2
fields
2. open Firefox password manager and look for the above mentioned site
Actual Results:  
The data for the site with more than 2 fields remembered is now mixed with the
data for the next remembered site in the password file.

Expected Results:  
Each site data should appear as in Mozilla, correctly.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.