On 05/25/2012 12:36 PM, Rufus wrote: > NoOp wrote: >> On 05/24/2012 04:44 PM, Rufus wrote: >> ... >>> >>> Steps to reproduce are simple - have a Profile with a Master >>> Password...open SM, sit back and wait. Like I said - *random*. I've >>> even put a stop watch on it and I can't even tie it to a regularly >>> occurring time interval. >>> >>> It's happened twice as I was typing this...but that's not always when or >>> how it happens. If I had had a download in progress I would have had to >>> Force Quit SM and have lost this session...*&#$!!! >>> >>> And then it keeps happening, but I seem to recall reading something here >>> that if the Master is asked for once it will continue to be asked for - >>> which is fine by me, it's that SM is seemingly ignoring my Pref setting >>> to not prompt until the first time it is "required". This happens when >>> I'm not doing anything to "require" it that I can tell. As stated in >>> the bug. >>> >>> I'm not doing anything specific, and as I noted in the bug it doesn't >>> seem to happen with a Profile where I have no Master Password set. >>> >> >> Have you tried with a clean/new test profile? >> Have you tried your existing profiles with add-ons disabled? >> >> If so you haven't indicated that in the bug report, or in this thread. >> >> <http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.9/#troubleshooting> >> >> > > Yes - I have done *all* of the above. On several different machines. > The only difference I've observed is that the random requests only cease > if a Profile *doesn't* have a Master Password set. I've also scanned > all of my machines to insure they are all free of virus or malware. > > I've also asked here if SM polls in the background in some manner which > isn't obvious to the user that would invoke a request for Master > Password - that's why I looked for some sort of timing thing and used a > stopwatch...it seems to truly occur randomly. I'm not sure I got an > actual answer to this question. > > It's just happened now...again. And again, this used to not happen > until some 1.1.x release - SM used to work per my Preference setting > (ask at first time required), which it seems to be ignoring. > > ...and it just happened *again*. >
This thread (mine from 2009) might be of interest: <http://www.archivum.info/mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey/2009-10/00159/%28Bug-414047%29-Multiple-Master-Password-Prompts.html> Try the first recommendation by Ricardo (setting email query times). And as a swag: set "mail.biff.on_new_window" to false. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
