Firefox asks several time for proxy authentication when started up and restoring session
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| firefox (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox
Following scenario
- You need to authenticate against the proxy server to access the internet
- You have several tabs open with sites open in it
You now close the browser (shutting down the PC, whatever...), next time you start up firefox session restore recreates all the tabs with the pages in it - this is desired.
Unfortunately every tab asks for proxy authentication - meaning, you have 20 tabs, you authenticate 20 times - or don't use session restore feature....
Furthermore, to emulate SSO (Single Sign On) the Extension "AutoAuth" is installed, which does not kick in at that time.
Desired fixes:
- only ask once for proxy authentication
- make AutoAuth work for the initial authentication or make it possible to submit the credentials automatically (store it somehow in the browser....)
| Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote | #1 |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 195698, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.