285318 - when thunderbird is started in response to system mail call, master password dialog prevents quitting

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Mike McGranahan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

If you click a link in a web browser, and Thunderbird opens to present the
message composition window, the modal Master Password dialog shows up and
impedes the user from quitting.  Pressing Cancel to the master password dialog,
then "Don't Save" to the "Save/Don't Save" modal dialog, presents the user with
another Master Password dialog.

This is slightly more complicated by the fact that sometimes the original master
password dialog is non-modal. But the same general idea applies: a Master
password dialog (modal or non-modal) is presented after the user has indicated
he is sure he wants to quit.

I understand that the Master Password dialog is probably being displayed as a
result of an internal request for access to secured passwords, but the way this
is implemented appears unpolished and unintuitive.  Perhaps a padlock icon in
the main window could encapsulate the Master Password functionality (locked
padlock icon means access to secured passwords is restricted, locked flashing
padlock icon means access to secured passwords is request and at first request
should prompt the user for master password, unlocked padlock icon means access
to secured passwords is granted. this follows the Mac OS X padlock scheme.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click a mail link in a web browser
2. once message composition window is displayed with modal master passwrod
prompt, press Command-Q to quit
3. Click Don't Save to "don't save" dialog

Actual Results:  
When i click Cancel, another master password dialog is diaplayed.

Expected Results:  
the program should close.

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.