Firefox new modal basic auth prompter issues
Hi, just an heads up for anybody with pathological firefox setups (many tabs in many windows, some doing basic auth to the same host), such as me. You might have noticed some issues on restart - since the prompter is a modal "in window (js)" dialog, they block each other for the same host, while it's not obvious, where the next dialog is lurking.. With a few hundred tabs, this can be a real nuisance, especially when the others are simply "busy spinning". Long story short, if you suffer from this as well, you might want to switch back to the real modal dialogs by setting prompts.modalType.httpAuth to 3 in about:config. This is a short term work around, that will hopefully fixed soon. For some of the gory details: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1684469 Cheers, Pete
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Hans-Peter Jansen