299064 - Firefox doesn't import passwords from Mozilla if the passwords are protected by Master Password

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Migration, defect)

Description

[jayfromtaiwan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050628 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050628 Firefox/1.0+

Firefox doesn't import passwords from Mozilla if the passwords are protected by
Master Password. I know the whole point of Master Password is to protect the
passwords in case the computer's _compromised_, but it shouldn't prevent users
from migrating the passwords.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.(Mozilla) Go to Bugzilla, log in and save password
2.(Mozilla) Set a Master Password
2.(Firefox) File - Import- From Mozilla
3.(Firefox) Preferences - Privacy - Password - View Passwords

Actual Results:  
Nothing in Password Manager

Expected Results:  
Passwords (and possibly master password) migrated from Mozilla

Comment 1

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

confirmed on Windows DP build 2005-06-29-04-trunk

remember to activate encryption in mozilla for the master passwording to take
effect.

then import password to DP. they don't get imported.
they will get imported if encrypting is turned off in mozilla.

is this protection intended?

Comment 2

[Lewis Rosenthal]

(In reply to comment #2)
> remember to activate encryption in mozilla for the master passwording to take
> effect.
> 
> then import password to DP. they don't get imported.
> they will get imported if encrypting is turned off in mozilla.
> 
> is this protection intended?

Actually, in my current SeaMonkey build (Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US;
rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051014 MultiZilla/1.8.1.0s SeaMonkey/1.1a), the master
password was configured, but encryption was not enabled. I was unable to import
into FF 1.0.7, even though I receved a message from FF that the passwords were
imported.

Clearing the master password from SeaMonkey and then attempting to re-import
into FF also did not work (and again, FF erroneously reported that the passwords
had been imported).

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

the mozilla/seamonkey migrator has been removed and should be rewritten from scratch.