92361 - Dialog explaining encryption displays wrong instructions

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P1)

Description

[Ninoschka Baca]

Branch build 2001-07-26-03: Mac 9.04

Overview: When the login dialog appears, type the password, select the checkbox
to save the password, press OK and the dialog explaining how to enable
encryption gives the wrong instructions. 

Actual Results: The instructions for encrypting say to go to Preferences, select
Advanced, Password.

Expected Results: The instructions should reference the correct instructions.
Currently it appears to be Preferences, Privacy and Security, Web Passwords.

Comment 1

[Ninoschka Baca]

Marking nsbeta1 because instructions for enabling encryption should be clear.

Comment 2

[robinf]

cc:ing Sean, writer for this area.

Comment 3

[robinf]

nbaca, can you attach a screen shot of the dialog to this bug, and I'll supply 
the orrect wording. Thanks.

Comment 4

[Sean Cotter]

Attachment: Dialog presented by build 2001121203

The attachment N621_pwd_alert.gif shows the current dialog. Note that it
doesn't include any instructions--the window is smaller than it was before and
therefore the last paragraph, which gives the (wrong) instructions referred to
by this bug, doesn't show up.

Comment 5

[Sean Cotter]

Attachment: Dialog presented by Netscape 6.1 RTM

By comparison, the attachment N61_pwd_alert.gif shows the dialog presented by
Netscape 6.1 RTM, which includes the offending paragraph.

Comment 6

[Sean Cotter]

Now that I look more closely at the paragraph presented by Netscape 6.1 RTM, it
actually is correct. Must have got fixed via another bug or something, and then
somehow the window got shrunk. 

So the solution is to expand the window so the paragraph shows up again. The
only text modification needed is to change "Privacy and Security" to "Privacy &
Security" (to match the current UI) so it reads like this:

To password protect stored information, choose Preferences from the Edit menu,
open the Privacy & Security category, choose Web Passwords, and check "Use
encryption when storing sensitive data."

Comment 7

[scottputterman]

reassigning to morse.

Comment 8

[Stephen P. Morse]

This report is confusing.  The first attachment shows the dialog as it currently 
appears and the second show it as it was in 6.1.  Note that the paragraph that 
gives these instructions has been removed.  That was done so intentionally so 
that we wouldn't have problems when the menu items changed.

So there is nothing to fix up since the paragraph no longer exists.  There is no 
"Privacy and Security" that needs to get changed to "Privacy & Security".

This bug was valid at one time -- probably when it was first reported.  But now 
it is no longer valid.

Comment 9

[Ninoschka Baca]

Verified Invalid.

The latest dialog does not display the misleading instructions so I agree that
this is Invalid.

But the dialog is very vague. This dialog mentions that for extra security you
will want to use a Master Password but doesn't give any clue on how to do
this.Bug# 117989 covers this latest issue. 

Comment 10

[Stephen P. Morse]

See also bug 117989.