XHR in chrome window does not show authentication dialog

[Rob Van Dam]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04

Bugzilla bug #420578 was reported fixed in 3.0b5 but still occurs in 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3.

An XHR to a page with standard http authentication (i.e. via .htaccess) should pop up an authentication dialog. If the XHR occurs in a chrome context (such as in an extension) the 401 error is ignored and no authentication dialog is shown.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425078
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.ajax/browse_thread/thread/c327ca11804b7812/a05aa8c5f7d26b05#a05aa8c5f7d26b05

Works in Firefox 2
Fails in Ubuntu Firefox 3.0b5 : Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008041514 Firefox/3.0b5
Works in Minefield nightly trunk build : Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008050204 Minefield/3.0pre

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

 We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!