[Bug 195698] Re: Password asked separately for each tab that requires it

Gerry gerry.spm+lnchpad at gmail.com
Sun Apr 19 20:33:07 UTC 2009


I agree with you that if you've entered the master password already, the
it is an issue unless you restart the browser. It would be great if there was
a button or keycombo I could press to relock the password manager, but
your method doesn't provide for that either so I was simply saying that
it offers better protection.

> It's basically a matter of how much you trust other people who you
leave at your PC.

> If you're paranoid about such things it's better to quickly create a
new system account, lock your current window manager login, and then
login to the new window manager as the new user (and make sure that
your home directory permissions are secure).

Well if you want to remain secure then you can't really trust them at all.
Even if you trust them, you may have others who rely on you not to trust
other people with that data.

It's not necessary about paranoia, it could just be about security. The
problem with your solution is that it will make your fiends, girlfriend,
associates etc. think badly of you. You can't let people know that you are
going out of your way because you don't trust them, because that offends
people which will then impact on you. :) Restarting firefox is much easier to
disguise. But as I said, the ideal solution would be to be able to hit a button
or key combo to relock the manager.

However my point was that disk encryption won't protect you in this
situation at all. I'm assuming if you unmounted the encrypted folder then
things would just stop working?

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Password asked separately for each tab that requires it 
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