[CentOS] Frefox update from firefox-60.2.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 to 60.2.1-1.el7.centos.x86_64 lost master password

Tue Oct 16 04:40:29 UTC 2018
Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>

> On 10/12/2018 08:24 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 5:34 AM Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> Did an update to firefox last night and rebooted over night.
>>>
>>> Today I find firefox started without asking for master password - funny
>>> me thinks.
>>>
>>> Try to log in to a web service I use and find that my password does not
>>> appear.
>>>
>>> Check preferences and find that no master password is set and the
>>> password list / table is empty.
>>>
>>> As I do not trust my passwords to the cloud I do not save these to my
>>> firefox profile ..... so back to manual entry for all my sites.... wow
>>> going to be a slow month as I reset scores of passwords.
>>>
>>> Any one else have this problem and any clues as to what causes this? I
>>> am concerned if this should happen again, as I have saved passwords for
>>> many scores of web services.
>>>
>>> TIA
>>> Rob
>>>
>>
>> We've run into this.
>>
>> Is it fixed in the latest firefox, 60.2.2-1?
>>
>> If not, it is not clear to me how to use the
>>
>> export NSS_DEFAULT_DB_TYPE="sql"
>>
>> method mentioned. Do we restore the old key3.db file, have the user set
>> that variable, then start the new firefox? With that create a key4.db
>> file
>> and use it from then on?
>>
>>
>
> It will be fixed when this is released:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1633932#c23
>
> In the mean time, for CentOS-6 and CentOS-7 (x86_64, i386) .. there is a
> temporary unsigned build here:
>
> https://buildlogs.centos.org/c6-firefox60.x86_64/firefox/20181015143830/
>
> https://buildlogs.centos.org/c7-firefox60.x86_64/firefox/20181015143830/

Thanks for these builds!
Unfortunately I did have problems after updating to them. The session
wouldn't restore as usual and some tabs simply kept empty. The URL was
shown correctly but the webpage wasn't visible. Reloading didn't help.

Downgrading to the current version fixed it again.

Any ideas what could be wrong?

Regards,
Simon