Comment 518 for bug 195698

I'm updating the patch for this bug, and am curious what people want to happen for one specific situation:

Suppose you are restoring a session in which there are multiple HTTP Auth requests for different servers. One master password prompt will be displayed while the others wait. Now, suppose for some reason you click Cancel instead of entering the master password. What should happen to the pending auth requests, and why (what's your use case)?

1) Cancel all of them. [No further MP or HTTP prompts displayed while restoring]

2) Cancel only the prompts for which you have stored logins. [ie, no further MP prompts.]

3) Don't cancel any of them. As each is processed, ask again for the Master Password if there are stored logins for the site.

4) Don't cancel any of them, but don't prompt again for the Master Password while restoring [thus, each prompt will be empty, with no login prefilled].

I'm planning on implementing #1, on the theory that if you're restoring a large number of tabs but click Cancel for the MP, you don't want bothered with any more prompts. The user might even just be borrowing someone else's computer, and has no interest in authenticating to anything (eg, they just want to check gmail). You can, of course, reload any tab to trigger the MP/HTTP auth again.

#3 is the easiest, but I don't think it's very useful (it just leads to clicking Cancel over and over). #4 may be rather hard to do due to implementation details.