379676 - Interface design bug: When Password Manager is being used, name field of any known login is interfered with

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 358617

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[John Sellers]

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Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

Any time the following two conditions are met, Password Manager asserts the master password dialog every time a character is typed into the name of the name field of any login known to the password manager:

1) The login is known to the password manager.
2) The master password has not been yet been entered.

This makes it difficult to fill in the name of the login field.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to a login known to the password manager before the master password for the password manager is entered 
2.Try to login without using the master password manager

Actual Results:  
Each character of the name that is entered into the name field of the login process causes the master password dialog to pop up...it has to be dismissed before the next character of the name is typed in

Expected Results:  
1a. type in first character in name field
1b. master password dialog pops up
1c. dismiss master password dialog
2a. type in second character in name field
2b. master password dialog pops up
2c. dismiss master password dialog
3a. type in third character in name field...etc.

There are cases when it is not desirable to use the master password dialog.  For example, a person might want to make sure he/she knows how to type the password (without peeking at the password).  In such a case, we don't want to the master password dialog involved because of the possibility of accidentally changing the password.

What we would want to happen is that in the password dialog, there was an option of dismissing it so that it would not come back multiple times while typing in the name in the name field of the login.