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In many cases start up dialogs represent some form of failing, ranging from a failing of engineering (unable to find or implement a cleaner solution), a failing of design (unable to determine the best approach) or a failing of security (delegating a decision so that we can blame the victim). In all of these cases the dialog itself is simply the manifestation of a larger problem that we need to attack.

Asks for the master password at startup (fixes multiple password prompt)

That issue has recently been fixed on the current trunk builds (Minefield 3.6a1), but not in Firefox 3.5.x