Neil wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
Is there some reason why everyone is trying to do something else
annoying when the SM1.1.xx behavior, to ask only when the MP was
needed and do it only once (unless the timeout option was specified),
was highly satisfactory?
The big difference between Gecko 1.8 and Gecko 1.9 is that the former
would lock up the entire browser waiting for you to enter the master
password. This meant that if you left the dialog open you would stop
getting mail; websites would not auto-refresh; ChatZilla would time out.
Given that we've lived with this behavior for years, that sounds worse than it
is.
Gecko 1.9 does not do this, so if only one window needs the master
password then you're all set, and you don't have to worry about it
logging you out of ChatZilla or whatever. But if two windows need the
master password, the problem is that neither knows that the other is
asking.
Until all of the various code that handles passwords gets fixed to
handle this, our workaround is to ask for the master password on startup.
But asking at all when the password is not needed seems to tickle some sore
point on the "piss me off" nerve, and I hear about that one thing more than all
the good things in 2.0. Hopefully TBird users will hate it, since policy seems
to be not to fix it in SM alone.
I worry that users will just turn off MP, and that's not good.
--
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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