566835 - Too many password dialogues on session restore

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 499233

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[A Mackie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

When restoring a browser session that had more than one tab open to a page that includes a login form, a prompt for the master password opens for each of these tabs rather than one for the whole session or one per window. This is especially problematic with sites like blogs where it is common to have many different pages open and each has a login box.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open several pages that will prompt for login details. 
2. Either Exit Firefox from the file menu, choosing to Save tabs and quit or kill the firefox process externally to simulate a crash
3. reopen Firefox (and restore tabs)
Actual Results:  
As each page requesting login details opens another master password prompt will open. If the session was a particularly heavy one (involving many tabs in multiple windows) it will not be possible to enter the master password as the dialogue boxes from slow loading pages obscure the previous ones. Processor load during this period can be sufficiently high as to make it impossible to drag a single dialogue from the centre of the screen.

Expected Results:  
A single password prompt opens asking for the master password, if the entered password is incorrect another opens etc, as would happen if the pages were visited more slowly as part of a normal browsing session whereby the password need only be entered once per session.