I love Firefox *but can we handle the "master password" modal dialog in a better way ? [suggestion]

[ebny]

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.

[Jon]

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[Serg]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[nickmcmozilla]

100% agreed. Every time I launch Firefox I don't need to "unlock" my passwords each time as my web sessions are often already signed in (Gmail, University drive etc). However I do need to cancel this master password dialog each time and many times during Firefox use as a login page or other mysterious page elements can just randomly trigger it, blocking me from whatever else I was doing. It's the most awfully intrusive feature of Firefox and it should be massively rethought.

It's encouragement at startup is a security risk, as it suggests to users that their passwords should always be unlocked as opposed to "unlocked" only when necessary. Because of session cookies I may not actually require a password for days of browsing until I happen to go to a site I haven't visited in a long time.

Suggestion:

• Disable it at launch. Users should ONLY unlock passwords when actually required to do so - for an actual login event. Launching Firefox on our pinned tabs that launches an already logged in Gmail and Facebook session (thanks to session cookies) should not justify password entry considering I don't need any passwords at that moment.
• Enable it only upon a login triggering event (a login page that's known to the password manager) however make it a soft appear where its prompt only appears within the login elements such as when someone chooses the username or password entry box. Arriving at a login page is not a 100% guarantee that a user wants to actually login, they could search a status page, click elements in the bottom banner, decide at the last minute to not login.

Overall, get this awfully intrusive modal dialog out of our faces all of the time.