456704 - Saved passwords are not filled in. New passwords are not saved.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 454993

(Firefox :: Security, defect)

Description

[Ip00n]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008091620 Firefox/3.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008091620 Firefox/3.0.2

Saved passwords are not filled in and new passwords are not saved.

The error console shows:

Error: this._storage is null
Source File: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/nsLoginManager.js
Line: 479

After I turned on logging by setting signon.debug to true in about:config I found out the problem was in:

Login Manager: Initialization of storage component failed: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIScriptableUnicodeConverter.ConvertToUnicode]"  nsresult: "0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/storage-Legacy.js :: anonymous :: line 854"  data: no]

It appears something goes wrong when reading a line from signons3.txt when that line contains a character with a diacritic. For example: é or ü

The UTF conversion fails on this line in storage-Legacy.js:

            line.value = this._utfConverter.ConvertToUnicode(line.value);



Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

dupe of Bug 456661 or Related to Bug 456182 ?

Comment 2

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

dupe of 454993