David E. Ross wrote:
On 7/24/2015 12:11 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Adrian Kalla wrote:
W dniu 07/24/2015 o 06:30 AM, Rainer Bielefeld pisze:
I think Adrian's question was whether you observe the "fist launch
crash" if you do the launch in safe mode (with disabled add-ons).
You can do that from cmd with "seamonkey.exe -safe-mode"
No, it was a question about the passwords: do they reappear in safe mode?
Because, afaik, all known cases of "password loss" on update to newer
SeaMonkey or Firefox versions were outdated "password
managers/extensions" -> uninstalling all of them made the password
reappear...
That's one known cause, documented in the release notes.
I've never used any password management addons, but lost passwords when
updating from 2.26.1 to 2.33 a few months ago. The workaround in that
case was to:
- Revert to SeaMonkey 2.26.1
- Restore the profile from backup
- Remove the master password
- Update to SeaMonkey 2.33
- Reapply the master password
Having the master password set (possibly in combination with other
things) seemed to cause the passwords to be lost after updating. Notes
of my experiences of that update are in the posts I linked to yesterday:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mozilla.seamonkey.user/57053
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mozilla.seamonkey.user/57093
It's possible that this is related to
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bugcgi?id=1092810#c16 and possible
that it can happen under certain conditions when updating from versions
<2.31 to >=2.31.
Mark.
If by "Remove the master password" you meant that you went to [Edit >
Preferences > Privacy & Security > Master Password] and then selected
the Reset Password button, yes you lose all your stored passwords. That
is what the text says under Reset Master Password.
No, I changed it to a blank password as detailed in the previous posts I
linked to, which removes the master password without losing the saved
passwords. That was the solution to AVOID losing passwords (and various
other settings, and the crash as it turned out). If I upgraded with the
master password still set, the passwords were all lost.
I was able to keep my stored passwords by exporting them via the Export
Passwords extension with my old version of SeaMonkey, then resetting my
master password. I then installed 2.35y, set my master password, and
then imported the exported passwords, again via the Export Passwords
extension. The only extension that I removed was the Remember Passwords
extension; all my other extensions -- including Export Passwords, Show
Password On Input (for my master password), and Show my Password (for
login passwords) -- remained enabled from my old profiles.
I suspect if you'd removed the master password by setting it to blank,
rather than resetting it, you may not have lost the passwords after
upgrading. Still, at least you've found another workaround and got them
back now ;o)
Mark.
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