902880 - Store Master Password in Windows PasswordCredential class

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1636789

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, enhancement, P5)

Description

[marvin]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130806104538

Steps to reproduce:

There is a lot of press right now, about Chrome saving all Password unencrypted. By default Firefox does that too. 
The solution is to set a master password.


Actual results:

I have to type (and remember that password) every time I launch Firefox.


Expected results:

Firefox could use the new PasswordCredential class (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.security.credentials.passwordcredential.aspx) to store the master password in a secure place on Windows 8 and newer.

Bug #496660 is the same issue for OS X

Comment 1

[ro.ggi]

This method would be better: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa380261(v=vs.85).aspx It is available starting from Windows XP and is used by Chrome and IE.

Comment 2

[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.