Closed Bug 650332 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

"Restore Previous Session" re-logs in to password-protected sites.

Categories

(Firefox :: Security, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Security
Version:
4.0 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 530594

People

(Reporter: jpm12344, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

If you close FF4 without signing off of websites (Paypal, for instance), then restoring the previous session logs the computer in again, at least with some installations of FF4. There's more info at

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2167727


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Log into a website (Paypal, ebay, Bank of America)
2.Close FF without logging off.
3.Relaunch FF, then "Restore Previous Session"
Actual Results:  
You will be logged in to the account, even if you restored someone else's previous session.

Expected Results:  
Should be at the "Log-in" page, as RobertJ reported in the Mozillazine post.
Duplicate of 650298
Version: unspecified → 4.0 Branch
Considering comment1, setting resolution to Resolved Duplicate.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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