524901 - Identify what application the Master password dialog comes from

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 397045

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Hooonza]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; cs; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; cs; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Hallo,
you would see 2 faceless password asking dialogs if you have the Firefox and the Thunderbird set to ask the master password on startup and you run these applications together. It is hard to guess which dialog belongs to which application.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set Firefox and Thunderbird to ask the master password on startup and set different passwords there
2. run them both
3. guess which ask dialog belongs to which application
Actual Results:  
It´s difficult to say. A program icon of the active application (above) is other but you must seek for it somewhere. You can click on all icons of the main panel and you can see answer of dialogs but you see all angels when spotting what happens.
Or you must set the same password so you do not need to decide :-)

Expected Results:  
It would be nice if I find immediately and clearly what application asks the password so I do not need to seek for it.

Editing of "chrome/{language}.jar\locale\{language}\global\commonDialogs.properties" can be useful (you can set "PromptPassword2" to "Firefox: enter the password" or "Thunderbird - enter the password" e.g.) but more clear mark of the dialog would be better (a displayed icon directly at this dialog maybe).

Comment 1

[Hooonza]

Testing it I think editing commonDialogs.properties ("Firefox - enter the password", "Thunderbird - enter the password") seems to be nice and enough to find my bearings well.

Comment 2

[Marius Scurtescu]

Attachment: Thunderbird Master Password Dialog on OS X, it has an icon

Comment 3

[Marius Scurtescu]

Attachment: Firefox Master Password Dialog on OS X, no icon

Comment 4

[Hooonza]

Attachment: An ilustration

Look at an ilustration of the conditions. It´s difficult to use the Firefox and the Thunderbird together. And it is very simple to adjust it ...

Comment 5

[Hooonza]

Attachment: A simple correction (look at the comment 1)

Comment 6

[Axel Grude [:realRaven]]

In the case of Firefox (or any tabbed browser) it would be nice to add information which tab (domain) requested the master password.

Comment 7

[juergen.edner]

I agree to Axel that an information should be added which shows what event has caused the display of the master password dialog.
I would also recommend to move away from using a popup window as a precaution because it might be easy for any kind of malware to simulate such a window and to grep the personal secret. How should a user know if the dialog comes from Firefox?

Comment 8

[Harry]

This would be solved if bug 489915 "Password required popup window should appear in taskbar always" were implemented, because the request would then be part of the window of the requesting program and it would be clear whether it was FF or TB that was requesting it.

Comment 9

[Harry]

and re Juergen ... yes, separate popup is an obvious security risk and another reason why I've just added my support to 489915 "Password required popup window should appear in taskbar always".

re Axel ... yes, say which tab ... or better still, say which *domain* needs it, which would more easily identify password requests from a third party site (if that is possible, perhaps it should not be).

Comment 10

[Chris Wood]

Looks like a duplicate of bug 397045.

Comment 11

[[:Aleksej]]

Yes, or at least of the bugs currently marked duplicate of that.