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ebny
Making moves
Status: New idea

Hello everyone.  I love Firefox. Always have. 

There is a usability-annoyance that I feel can be resolved easily.

  • ISSUE:
    If you have a Master Password in use, Firefox will push a popup modal dialog (a small popup window to input master password), and this window randomly blocks use of Firefox until it is closed or you enter your master password. We don't need this popup-modal dialog every time we use Firefox.
  • SUPER SIMPLE SOLUTION:  (very low hanging fruit)
    Add an on/off toggle state-button for the master password modal, to the Firefox toolbar. The master password dialog modal's "initialize function" can check to see if the modal is wanted or not.
    Secondarily, if the button is clicked ON, the modal should immediately appear.
    **OBVIOUSLY** if the button is off(not pressed in)(aka: master password modal not wanted), then the system continues to work as intended by protecting the passwords and site entries etc.
    ..IT'S JUST THAT WE WON'T GET SPAMMED THAT ANNOYING MODAL WINDOW CONSTANTLY WHEN WE DON'T WANT IT/NEED IT/Etc !

    I humbly request this change.
    As someone who is working on development at all hours of the day and night, this master password modal popup is enough of a hassle to push me over to Chrome for 90% of my tasks and I really dislike Chrome.
    PLEASE ALLOW US TO TURN THIS ON and OFF as needed.

    Thank you,
    Love all around.
    Mozilla makes, and does, great things.



5 Comments
Status changed to: New idea
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

Thanks for submitting an idea to the Mozilla Connect community! Your idea is now open to votes (aka kudos) and comments.

Serg
Employee
Employee

Thanks @ebny  for the reminder about that annoying window! We have Bug 1149505 to track this.
I can not promise anything, but I can say that we are looking for the opportunity to get it fixed.

Romain
Making moves

I would suggest to make an icon which changes (color and/or design) with the master locking state.

Some additional ideas which could be implemented at the same time:

* an automatic re-locking timer

* unlock only for this page (checkbox)

jfl1950
New member

I have tried three different ways using your websites to remove your "Thank you for loving Firefox" from popping up everytime I open FireFox and have not had any luck.

Having it pop up once would be OK in the future but NOT EVERYTIME I open FireFox. I tried going threw the skip no luck, the setup no luck the changing the https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/896278 no luck https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1104766 no luck https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1296613 no luck https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1370262 the same.

FirefoxUser1
Making moves

When you have many windows and/or tabs open, finding master password modal is liking find a needle in a haystack. When the "View and manage your passwords" Key icon is clicked on, it should permit users to enter master password there thus disabling the hidden modal.