697991 - Master Password popup is not triggered when a page with saved credentials is reloaded if Master Password confirmation was denied before

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Cristian Nicolae (:xti)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Android;Linux armv7l;rv:10.0a1)Gecko/20111028
Firefox/10.0a1 Fennec/10.0a1
Devices: HTC Desire, Acer ICONIA A500
OS: Android 2.2, Android 3.1

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Fennec
2. Browse to bugzilla.mozilla.org
3. Log in with valid credentials
4. Tap on Remember password
5. Go to Preferences
6. Enable and add a Master Password
7. Restart Fennec
8. Repeat step 2
9. Dismiss the Master Password popup by tapping the Cancel button
10. Reload the page
11. Repeat step 9

Expected result:
For every page reload, the Master Password popup is triggered until the Master Password will be typed and confirmed.

Actual result:
After step 10, the Master Password confirmation is not requested again.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Please verify what desktop Firefox does in this situation.

Comment 2

[Cristian Nicolae (:xti)]

(In reply to Aaron Train [:aaronmt] from comment #1)
> Please verify what desktop Firefox does in this situation.

I've verified on the latest desktop Nightly build and also on the latest release of desktop Firefox and actual result is the same as expected.

Comment 3

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

It's generally agreed among UX/Engineering/Product that we don't want to further develop the existing master password functionality, as it's a poor fit for current needs and our current direction in this area.