483368 - Software Security Device (Password Manager) prompt reprompts for password after first cancel

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[foxyloxy.wikimedia]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021906 Firefox/3.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021906 Firefox/3.0.7

Sometimes, when going to webpages that I have a saved password for, the software security device pops up asking for my master password. I click cancel for legitimate reason (the why isn't relevant) and the dialog appears again, asking for my password. A related issue, alough this may not be a bug, is that when I go to a website, it will prompt me for a password when the website first loads, then again when I click the password field.

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a website where you have a saved password (I tried mail.google.com)
2. Prompt will appear asking for master password.
3. Click Cancel
Actual Results:  
On the two runs I tried this, the first problem outlined in my summary would not occur, but the second one did (when I chose a username from the username drop down menu and then clicked the password field).

Expected Results:  
When clicking Cancel, the dialog will re-prompt you.

Checking the Error Console on the advice of a Mozilla Developer friend, I received one of the exact same error below for each time I clicked cancel.

#
Error: [Exception... "'User canceled Master Password entry' when calling method: [nsILoginManagerStorage::findLogins]"  nsresult: "0x8057001e (NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_STRING)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/components/nsLoginManager.js :: anonymous :: line 465"  data: no]
#
Source File: file:///Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/components/nsLoginManager.js
#
Line: 465

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs which are in the Firefox General component, are
UNCO, have not been changed for 500 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10 or later, create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you still see the issue, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the status to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply from reporter, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.