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(Get the code!)
(In reply to Brian Smith (:briansmith), was <email address hidden> (:bsmith) from comment #94)
> 4) Some people at Mozilla are working on this "Sign into the browser" /
> "Profile in the Cloud" thing, of which Sync is a part. See
> https:/
> to make sure that the people working on this feature discuss it with the the
> Identity people to make sure that this work and that work is
> compatible/
AFAIK this has nothing to do with master password. Master password is not send to Sync service and user is not required to set master password on other Firefox instances, but it's good to keep Sync in mind.
(In reply to MartinSchroeder from comment #98)
> What are the downsides of completely relying on libsecret for storing
> passwords instead of a proprietary solution? Then a user had all his
> passwords in his keyring and wouldn't have to care about other locations
> where passwords are stored.
This is also an option but it requires more libsecret binding:
Getting list of passwords for Saved Passwords dialog and allow to remove individual records if we want to keep Saved Passwords and Sync working.
Personally I would stay with currently easiest solution which is storing user defined master password to libsecret's keyring. It's up to user to set strong password for Firefox and Keyring. They have probably weak password now because they have to retype it frequently. If they didn't have to they would eventually set stronger password. It's also smaller change to introduce new bugs since we're doing lesser change.