Multiple passphrase dialogs shown

[Florian Boor]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Restoring a session with multible tabs that have a stored password and request for a login Firefox opens multiple passphrase dialogs to unlock the password database. This is even more annoying if a second dialog pops up in front of the first while you are typing your passphrase.

To reproduce:
1. Configure Firefox to restore the open tabs on start.
2. Open more than one websites that will ask for a password and tell Firefox to remember these passwords.
3. Quit Firefox
4. Start it again and multiple passphrase dialogs will appear

This started with the first Firefox 3.0b package in Ubuntu 8.04. With the Firefox 2.x in 7.10 the behaviour was correct: One dialog independednt from the number of open tabs.
package information:

firefox-3.0:
  Installed: 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri May 23 10:55:43 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Florian Boor wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
>
> Restoring a session with multible tabs that have a stored password and
> request for a login Firefox opens multiple passphrase dialogs to unlock
> the password database. This is even more annoying if a second dialog
> pops up in front of the first while you are typing your passphrase.
>
> To reproduce:
> 1. Configure Firefox to restore the open tabs on start.
> 2. Open more than one websites that will ask for a password and tell Firefox to remember these passwords.
> 3. Quit Firefox
> 4. Start it again and multiple passphrase dialogs will appear
>
> This started with the first Firefox 3.0b package in Ubuntu 8.04. With the Firefox 2.x in 7.10 the behaviour was correct: One dialog independednt from the number of open tabs.
> package information:
>
> firefox-3.0:
> Installed: 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
> Candidate: 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
> Version table:
> *** 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
> 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri May 23 10:55:43 2008
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
> PackageArchitecture: i386
> ProcEnviron:
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
> SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
> Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686
>
> ** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
>
> ** Tags: apport-bug
>
Do you have it set in preferences to use a master password for your
passwords?
I am unable to reproduce this without using the master password pref.
To find out open preferences and go to security and see if the box next
to Use master password is checked. if so uncheck it and it will no
longer do that. If its not checked please follow the instructions at:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs
to use a new profile and see if you can reproduce it than.

--
Sincerely Yours,
     John Vivirito

https://launchpad.net/~gnomefreak
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnVivirito
Linux User# 414246

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 09:14:09AM -0000, Florian Boor wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
>
> Restoring a session with multible tabs that have a stored password and
> request for a login Firefox opens multiple passphrase dialogs to unlock
> the password database. This is even more annoying if a second dialog
> pops up in front of the first while you are typing your passphrase.
>
> To reproduce:
> 1. Configure Firefox to restore the open tabs on start.
> 2. Open more than one websites that will ask for a password and tell Firefox to remember these passwords.
> 3. Quit Firefox
> 4. Start it again and multiple passphrase dialogs will appear
>
> This started with the first Firefox 3.0b package in Ubuntu 8.04. With the Firefox 2.x in 7.10 the behaviour was correct: One dialog independednt from the number of open tabs.
> package information:
>

We have another bug for this filed against firefox-3.0 or maybe
xulrunner-1.9. We should dupe it

 tag likely-dup

Most likely already has a bug for this in
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org. We should find that accordingly.

 affects firefox
 status incomplete

 - Alexander