447656 - Popup for Master Security Device password is Silent.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 942610

(Thunderbird :: Security, enhancement)

Description

[Dan Scott]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.14 (20080421)

Since I use a digital signature on all email, when I'm composing the first (long) message of the day, and I'm looking at a document, not the Thunderbird compose screen, a popup silently occurs after a few minutes:

 "Password Required
?
Please enter the master password for the Software Security Device."

I often end up typing to the end of the paragraph into the password input. (Wasting my time, and creating a bad password for Thunderbird).

Would it be possible to have a configuration parameter that would cause an sound (beep) to occur when the popup occurs?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Configure Thunderbird with a Signing Certificate (and to sign email).
2.Open a compose window.  
3.Type until the 'save drafts' features wants to save a draft.
4.Don't notice the silent popup asking for a master password for the Software Security Device.
5. Keep typing until the end of the paragraph.
6. Notice that everything you've typed isn't in the composed email, and that the master password process is unhappy about not having the correct password.
Actual Results:  
Incomplete email.  Time and effort wasted.  Frustration.

Expected Results:  
Complete email.  Password correctly entered.  Happiness.

If the user had configured Thunderbird to do so; an alert tone that tells you a popup is present and wants attention.

Comment 3

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

The content of attachment 8817190 [details] has been deleted for the following reason:

spam

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

along the lines of bug 942610