How do I make firefox only prompt me for the master password only when it's required, instead of just randomly prompting me?

Firefox used to only ask me for my master password when I navigated to a site where I had a stored password ... now it prompts me when it opens or every 30 minutes (security.password_lifetime doesn't fix my issue) and I do not like this behavior. I don't want to have to enter it every time I open the browser, but rather when I get to a site where it is needed. I don't know why this behavior was changed, but it is incredibly annoying and it is only driving me away from firefox.

This is sooooo irritating that it does this everytime. No way to turn it off without turning off the master password ... so either I give it up, I deal with it, or I stop using firefox ... I this at this point firefox development has taken a turn for the worst ... it's gone from being the quickest browser to being one of the slowest. I used to hate IE .. but I'm starting to prefer it to Firefox ... well, I prefer Chrome now ... Firefox has gone down the hole. 1+gig of memory for 3 webpages.

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