Fx 3.0.2/3.0.3 password bugs [non-ascii characters only]

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Fx 3.0.2/3.0.3 password bugs [non-ascii characters only]

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As I heard on IRC, a new password bug [1] after update 3.0.1 ==> 3.0.2 will force a quick release 3.0.3 next week.
Affected are only passwords with no-ascii charactered passwords. Perhaps this is the reason, that I can find no threads on MZ about this. But German Firefox support forum is full of affected users [2], because German language has three popular non ascii characters, the so called "Umlaute" Ä, ä, Ö, ö, Ü, ü...

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdepend ... rankdir=TB
[2] http://firefox.uni-duisburg.de/forum/vi ... 184#498184

Passwords are not lost, but hidden

Edit: SUMO help
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Can ... ng+Firefox
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Re: New 3.0.2 password bug will force quick release 3.0.3

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I added a note about the bug (in case it helps) to http://kb.mozillazine.org/User_name_and_password_not_remembered
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Re: New 3.0.2 password bug will force quick release 3.0.3

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Re: New 3.0.2 password bug will force quick release 3.0.3

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Firefox 3.0.3 on beta channel aviable released: http://www.mozilla.com

broken password entries must be removed and created new by user and than can be saved, see
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451155#c17
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Re: New 3.0.2 password bug will force quick release 3.0.3

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Passwords still missing after upgrade to 3.0.3

Workaround:
Use notepad to open signons3.txt (located in the Firefox profile folder) and re-save it with encoding UTF-8.

Ref:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454708#c26
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Re: New 3.0.2 password bug will force quick release 3.0.3

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3.0.3 is available now. If the password problem is affecting you directly use Help > Check for Updates to get 3.0.3 now, instead of waiting for notification.



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Re: New 3.0.2 password bug will force quick release 3.0.3

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German Support Forum:
3.0.3 updates helps and don't help.

So by some users something happened beside the bug, which is unknown at the moment.
They have to manage the workaround reported by Alice two posts above me, and passwordmanager will work fine.
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Re: New 3.0.2 password bug will force quick release 3.0.3

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It's been reported on irc that in 3.0.3 just adding a new password then restarting firefox fixes any carry-over problems.
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Re: New 3.0.2 password bug will force quick release 3.0.3

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And it's reported on German Support Forum that restarting pc after update to 3.0.3 will fix the problems too :P
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Re: New 3.0.2 password bug will force quick release 3.0.3

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Several new bugs are filled about issues with Password Manager in 3.0.3
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457329
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457358 (assigned)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457403



Mozilla QA asks for help in comments
If you can still reproduce this, please enable debugging per
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox:Passwo ... _Debugging and attach here.
This would be very helpful

People who have no bugzilla-account, can attach here too, Mozilla QA will read here.
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Re: New 3.0.2 password bug will force quick release 3.0.3

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I am temporarily stickying this, until this problem is resoved....
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Please DO NOT PM me for support... Lets keep it on the board, so we can all learn.
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Re: New 3.0.2 password bug will force quick release 3.0.3

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Really, its a new bug in 3.0.3, confirmed and assigned
Bug 457358 - need to reset UTF8 converter after it encounters invalid input (pwmgr problems in FF3.0.3)
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Re: New 3.0.2 password bug will force quick release 3.0.3

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Link to discussion in contributors forum at SUMO - Regression in Firefox 3.0.2 - lost passwords & passwords not saving anymore
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Re: Fx 3.0.2/3.0.3 password bugs [non-ascii characters only]

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International Keyboards

This links shows pictures of international keyboards with special national characters, which are all non-ascii and cause the problems with the password manager at the moment.
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Re: Fx 3.0.2/3.0.3 password bugs [non-ascii characters only]

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I'm not sure if the problem I'm experiencing is the same.
After update to v3.0.3 I've noticed that Password Hasher extension sometimes stops working. It works fine when FF started after a while it stops working (it doesn't remember entered site keys and doesn't store new ones).
So, I've started investigating and came to conclusion that it stops working when "ImageBot" tries login to imageshack.us site. Well to make long story short FF password manager stops working when a script uses getAllLogins({}):

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Components.classes["@mozilla.org/login-manager;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsILoginManager).getAllLogins({})


After little more experiments it turned out that when I open "Saved passwords" window it shows all the sites and passhash entries, but after pressing "Show passwords" it shows only regular sites and passhash entries gone until browser restart.

In the logs it shows:
PwMgr Storage: Failed to decrypt string: MEoEEPgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEwFAYIKoZIhlongstringI/O80SCd1075hwYqIp6LC3RKpg== (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)
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PwMgr Storage: Failed to decrypt string: MEoEEPgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAblah234blah== (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)
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PwMgr Storage: Failed to decrypt string: MDIEEPgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAblah== (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)
(I've removed real string)
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