876971 - client certificate not deleted

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 435159

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, defect)

Description

[Frank Cusack]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130512194445

Steps to reproduce:

FireFox 21 on ubuntu precise.

Visit a site that requires a client cert.

Go to certificate manager (edit->preferences->advanced->view certificates) and the 'Your Certificates" tab.  Select the client certificate used for the site you just visited.  Click Delete... and OK.  Click OK to exit certificate manager.  Click OK to exit preferences.

Visit website again.


Actual results:

UI updated to show certificate not there.

2nd website visit successful.

Visiting Certificate manager again shows the client certificate just deleted is back again.

Sometimes the subsequent visit gives the client certificate selection dialog again, sometimes it does not.  I suspect this is due to a simple timeout in the browser.


Expected results:

2nd website visit should have failed to to lack of a client certificate.

Certificate manager deletion should be persistent (going back should show the certificate still missing).

Comment 1

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

Could you please try the following, to see if you still reproduce the issue :

1) try this with a clean profile: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

2) running in Safe mode: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode

Comment 2

[Frank Cusack]

I am able to reproduce it 100% for both cases.

Comment 3

[:Cykesiopka]

Thanks for filing the report. It looks like the root cause of this is already described in Bug 435159.