Ubuntu
firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #195698
  2. Comment #117

Comment 117 for bug 195698

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In , Justdave-mozilla (justdave-mozilla) wrote :

(In reply to comment #64)
> Can someone explain why Thunderbird can handle multiple prompting for passwords
> and Firefox can not? I thought they would share this Core component.
> Apparently Thunderbird does serialize the prompts and Firefox doesn't? And
> for Thunderbird this poses no security risk and for Firefox it is?

Because you're using an older version of Thunderbird? The alphas of Thunderbird 3 most certainly *do* have this problem, and it's bloody annoying (I have 7 email accounts in my Thunderbird, so I get prompted for my master password 7 times every time I launch Thunderbird).