357582 - Master password prompt twice/none when starting Firefox 2

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 267807

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[wayneisaacs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Get the master password prompt twice when starting Firefox 2. This problem only started after upgrading from Firefox 1.5.0.7 to Firefox 2 RC 3.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start Firefox 2
2.
3.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Are you using a proxy?

Comment 2

[wayneisaacs]

No I am not using a proxy

Comment 3

[Jackie Liu]

WFM "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061020 BonEcho/2.0"

Comment 4

[Andreas Grillenberger]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010
BonEcho/2.0
WFM

Comment 5

[dragos]

Hi

Same problem here with 2.0.0.2 in linux/win, but only from time to time. For versions 1.5x (win/linux) the password was asked even 3 or 4 times.


regards

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away 10/03 - 10/13)]

I can confirm this behavior on Mac OS X. Since a couple of days I see the master password dialog twice sometimes. It also appears that it is never shown at start-up when a password site from the last session is already open. Dunno if this should be a separat issue.

Reporter, do you have installed other locales? My impression is that it is happen when switching between them. Especially for me.

Comment 8

[dragos]

I've checked on the latest release from Firefox 2.0.0.3 and this error only appears on linux not on windows.
Today 3 popup windows for entering the Master Password where opened. I just enter the password in one of them and press cancel on the others.


regards

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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070320 SUSE/2.0.0.3-11.2 Firefox/2.0.0.3

Comment 9

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away 10/03 - 10/13)]

Has anyone of you installed the Gmail Notifier 0.5.6.5? For me this extension causes this issue. If you have opened a site within your last session which is protected or a login is needed Firefox shows the master password dialog twice on the next start. I can reproduce this issue on every start of Firefox.

Comment 10

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away 10/03 - 10/13)]

This only happens if you set "Automatically log in" to true. In that case the extension wants to log in at startup. If you already have opened another site with an authentication request both requests for the master password seems to run in "parallel". I don't know any another extension which makes use of that feature. So I cannot test if that's an extension or core issue.

Benjamin, do you have an idea what going on?

Comment 11

[dragos]

Hi Henrik
I'm also using the same version of Gmail Notifier and you are right. Disabling it makes the dialog visible only once.

regards

Comment 12

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away 10/03 - 10/13)]

I retried on OS X and on that OS no master password dialog will be opened. That's a different behavior as on Windows. You are not able to work with Thunderbird anymore until you disable the gmail notifier or remove the automatically login.

Marcia, could you try to reproduce it plz?

Comment 13

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Here is the behavior I see on Mac with the Gmail Notifier Installed. I am using Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4pre) Gecko/2007051603 BonEcho/2.0.0.4pre.

1. With auto login disabled, if I click on the Gmail notifier in the status bar I get prompted with 1 Master Password dialog. Note that it takes a long time for the Master Password dialog to come up.
2. With auto login enabled, if I restart Firefox I am prompted once for a Master Password.

Comment 14

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away 10/03 - 10/13)]

(In reply to comment #13)
> 2. With auto login enabled, if I restart Firefox I am prompted once for a
> Master Password.

Also if you restore your last session with opened pages which requires authentication's?

Comment 15

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

After an extension install, when Firefox restarts I get one prompt for the Master Password as well. This time I am testing Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/2007051502 Firefox/2.0.0.4, which is our release candidate.

Comment 16

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away 10/03 - 10/13)]

After upgrading my branch nightly build to Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4pre) Gecko/20070521 BonEcho/2.0.0.4pre I got the message that GMail notifier 0.6 is available. I installed that update. Now the master password dialog is also prompted twice when I've disabled auto-login. I have to disable that extension to circumvent this issue.