320684 - Master Password should optionally apply only to password viewing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 259648

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Andrew C.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

In my opinion, there should be a way to use a master password that only applies to viewing saved passwords so that saved passwords can be secured without having to enter a password each session.
I apologize if this is a dupe, I looked for 15 minutes and din't find anything.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> Passwords and set a master password
2. Restart Firefox.3.

Actual Results:  
The master password is prompted for each session.

Expected Results:  
If the user chooses, the master password should apply only to viewing saved passwords.

Comment 1

[Dak]

I agree, and was in fact about to submit this feature request.

Comment 2

[Michael Wu [:mwu]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 259648 ***