285878 - "show passwords" does nothing

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Grayson Mixon (ColdFusion650)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050312 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: version 1.0+ (20050308)

clicking the "show passwords" button doesnt show the saved passwords.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. goto tools>options>privacy>passwords
2. click on "view saved passwords"
3. click on "show passwords"
Actual Results:  
nothing happened.

Expected Results:  
an additional column appears showing the passwords that were saved.

javascript console error:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIPK11Token.checkPassword]"  nsresult:
"0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://messenger/content/preferences/viewpasswords.js :: ConfirmShowPasswords
:: line 246"  data: no]

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

i havne't seen this myself but several others have reported this. your JS error
helps a lot. 

Comment 2

[Grayson Mixon (ColdFusion650)]

tracked down the regression date. march 7 works. march 8 doesnt. has something
to do with the new prefs window.

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

if you set a master password then later remove it, do you still have this problem?

Comment 4

[Anton van Bohemen]

Nope, that solves it... interesting. I'll bet it's pretty hard to for me
reproduce this bug now ;)

Comment 5

[Grayson Mixon (ColdFusion650)]

wfm now too. its some kind of problem with the new options window.

Comment 6

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: the fix

checkToken is throwing an exception for users who have never set a master
password before. Work around the exception.

Of course neither of you guys can verify the fix anymore :)