Comment 398 for bug 195698

That would be – imo and as far as I can judge this – a really simple
but smart approach to get rid of this ridiculous problem which forces
me to disable the master password feature completely. But the question
is why noone came up with such an idea before?!

Best,
Manuel Fittko

Am 13.05.2009 um 14:14 schrieb and.hunt:

> I know the add-on fixes this problem, but shouldn't firefox be
> modified,
> so that when a password manager call is made, as will be made by every
> tab on startup if a password is required and you haven't authenticated
> yet, firefox first checks whether there is already a password dialog
> open, and if this is the case, it doesn't open another one. This means
> that the first tab to want a password will cause the dialog to appear,
> the other calls will simply be ignored, and then once the password is
> entered everything works as normal. (I.e. set firefox up so that only
> one password dialog can ever appear.)
>
> --
> Password asked separately for each tab that requires it
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195698
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