Closed Bug 560131 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Password-protected profiles

Categories

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 19184

People

(Reporter: claysmalley, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: privacy) 

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009051221 Firefox/3.0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009051221 Firefox/3.0.10

It would be nice if one could password-protect their profile (i.e. with their Master Password), so that on the Profile Manager on startup will ask for a password to start Firefox with the selected profile. Of course, this would only happen if the owner of the profile enables it.

This would be useful because many users share a computer account with multiple people in my house. This would be the equivalent of "logging in" to Firefox. I don't want others to see my history or saved passwords.

Reproducible: Always




Interface implementation:
* a simple checkbox under Tools > Options > Security > Passwords.
* a password prompt when one loads up the profile manager and selects a password-protected profile
Keywords: privacy
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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