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OK, I did some more digging and found that WebMail Notifier 1.1.7 by Byungwook Kang is the major cause of my issue. I will let him know. It caused me to get tons of master password requests. Without this add-on, I usually (90% to 95%) get asked for my master password twice and the rest just once. I performed this test with 4 windows and 27 tabs between them and at the end I have 22 add-ons enabled. I love Firefox 3 as it's still fast and stable with all of them.
Now I have done this before and all can say is that maybe I was not as through as i was this time, which may be true in one way or another, and/or multiple add-ons caused this issue before that have now removed that problem so enabling a few at a time, rather than one at a time kept the issue making me think it was a Firefox issue and not an add-on issue.
I do like the idea of the way that StartupMaster does this in that it asks for the password before showing Firefox windows and if the person does not know that password or clicks cancel, you do not loose your session data. I think the only way to get out of this with our StartupMaster if you do not know the password is to kill the Firefox process.
The following is not directly related to this topic, but I am not sure where to put it. If it makes you mad, ignore it or weather it does or does not, you could direct me to the proper place where it will likely be reviewed and/or to some good add-ons for dealing with sessions, session recovery and tabs.
The point for me using the master password tab it 2 fold.
1) Protect my accounts on site for which I have saved passwords.
2) Protect my sessions, which it does not so all the time, see my suggestion/request above about StartupMaster.
This leads me to think about some issues with the whole save and restore session process. I understand that this is relatively new, but it has some great uses which is why people want it, but currently, it is easy to totally screw it up and there are no easy tools to fix or undo a mistake which could take a use a while to recover from and there is a huge lack of consistency. e.g. You have to have turn on the option "warn me before closing multiple tabs" for any of this to work which is inconsistent because I could have 2 windows with one page each and it would ask me to save and quit with this option, but there is no way to get that message without this option on.