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master password question
Opera keeps asking me for my master password every 2 minutes although i don't do anything. I have no idea why it is asking me for my master password. Is there a possibility to find out why it is aksing me or to stop it asking me, without stopping it asking for the master password when i use the "wand".I use opera rss-feed and opera-mail, but the refresh time is set to 15 minutes.
Has anyone an idea how i can stop this because opera is nearly unusable when every 2 minutes a window appears.
thank you
The master password is used for accessing stored password (from the password manager), mail passwords, irc passwords, and personal certificates I think. There's a setting on Preferences > Advanced > Security to control how often the master password needs to be entered. Does that help?
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Originally posted by Rijk:
The master password is used for accessing stored password (from the password manager), mail passwords, irc passwords, and personal certificates I think. There's a setting on Preferences > Advanced > Security to control how often the master password needs to be entered. Does that help?
If i change this setting the master password doesnt need to be entered when i use the password manager. and this is the most importent thing for me.
There's not just a checkbox there, but also a timer. As the password manager will be needed every time you check email (if you've set up an POP email account), you might want to pick a lower frequency there.
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It's Opera link is causing these constant popups. That really sux. 
I have the choice of removing the security from the Opera password manager or disabling Opera Link. :-S
I get that Opera Link would need to fetch new data when it pops up on the server so has to keep making requests, however it would be much better if opera link generated a SHA-1 of the contents on the server and compared that with the contents on the client. Then only when the hash differed would it need to request the master password. This would be a much more sane way of doing things. Right now I get CONSTANT master password popups no matter what, whenever I have Link enabled.
I have the choice of removing the security from the Opera password manager or disabling Opera Link. :-SI get that Opera Link would need to fetch new data when it pops up on the server so has to keep making requests, however it would be much better if opera link generated a SHA-1 of the contents on the server and compared that with the contents on the client. Then only when the hash differed would it need to request the master password. This would be a much more sane way of doing things. Right now I get CONSTANT master password popups no matter what, whenever I have Link enabled.