453866 - warning for: "I submit information that's not encrypted"

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[milt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1

1. In firefox 3.0.1, after acknowledging the warning gmail encounters a transmission problem.  You have to turn the warning off in gmail instead of just acknowledging the warning.

2. This warning turns off from time to time for no apparent reason.  Most recently, it went away when firefox 3.0.1 downloaded.

3. I deserve a medal for omitting the obscenities in this one.  In light of 1 and 2, I just sent a password to "The Netscape Unofficial FAQ" with no encryption.  Those idiots promptly sent it back to me in email.  I'm done with that page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set the warning.  Upgrade from whatever I was running before to 3.0.1.
2. Sorry, I don't usually notice right away and I am not usually sure what got me.  I Don't know how to reproduce this one.  I guess just set the option and check it more often.  Is it possible for a script to clear this without me receiving a warning message?
3. Go to The Netscape Unofficial FAQ (http://www.ufaq.org/) and create a new account.  Then remove them from the links on your web page.  Then forward this report to them after inserting swear words.
Actual Results:  
1. gmail keeps coming back with:
   Oops... the system encountered a problem (#103) - retrying in XXs
2. I end up signing up for a new website which doesn't encrypt the message as you establish the new password which makes me angry.


This is a security problem so long as there are web pages as incompetent as the one for Unitrin insurance and the one for the Netscape Unofficial FAQ

Comment 1

[milt]

Item 1 did not happen in whatever I was running prior to 3.0.1 - item 1 is new behavior.  Since 3.0.1 turned off the warning during the download I bet I'm not the only one about to be bitten

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

I am confused on what you are meaning. You seem to be having an issue with a website, but what it is I can not understand :). This is a technical bug reporting database for the Mozilla products (Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.). You said something about a gmail security warning, can you give clear, concise, yet detailed information about a Firefox issue. not something with another website n ot affiliated with Mozilla 9which seems to be the majority of your report). If this is not an issue with Firefox, then you are at the wrong location for enduser support. You get no help here in bugzilla.
Please use http://support.mozilla.com (Forum)

btw:
start firefox in the safemode:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe+mode
or create a new profile
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder to check if your issue still exists.

Comment 3

[milt]

Let's just consider item 1.  Last week, I could request a warning for "I submit information that's not encrypted" and I would get the warning.  This worked on many web pages, most notably on the gmail web page.

Then I downloaded 3.0.1 of firefox, now the gmail web page does not recover from the warning situation.  

I can't prove that this is a firefox problem, but it is quite a coincidence that the problem started when I downloaded a firefox update.  I am unaware of changes at gmail.

It is possible that the warning was off for a while and I didn't realize, but I doubt it.  I get the warning every time I send mail and I should think I would have noticed.

Yes, Tyler, this is a finger pointable situation.  I quit.  Looks like firefox to me, but maybe it really is gmail.  You ought to be in a better position to tell than I am.

Comment 4

[milt]

Wow, I might stand corrected here.  I just registered a bogus user name at ufaq.org.  This time, while ufaq did NOT encrypt the username and I did get the warning, things went through.  They are currently holding a bogus registration.  So, maybe it is a gmail change.

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

@Reporter, we have not heard back from you in a while, so I am closing this bug as INCOMPLETE. You can reopen this bug if more information becomes available. Some helpful information you can provide us is found at http://new.quality.mozilla.org/bug-writing-guidelines.