Master password serious bug

If i click cancel twice instead of entering my master password I can use Thunderbird anyway.
This is a serious bug I believe.
I use version 31.4.0, win7 sp1.
Thanks.

It isn't a bug. The master password is protecting account passwords you told Thunderbird to remember. It isn't supposed to protect the profile.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Protect_the_profiles_contents

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Wow. You nailed it...Whump!
And it seemed a weird behavior to me... like a bug. And sure enough the clever developer of this extension explains:
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Every time I open Firefox, the Master Password prompt appears randomly within about 30 seconds. Sometimes I'm still sitting on the home screen when I get the prompt.
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I would either like the prompt right away, as soon as I open my browser, or when it is actually required, like when I open a login page. Not the current, seemingly random appearance that disrupts me in the middle of web browsing.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1274?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
For Lion and later:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4101
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