291734 - Firefox displays popup window when loggin in at the web-site

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 243572

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Sean Grisham]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050419 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050419 Firefox/1.0.4

When I'm accessing the web-site which requires the username/password and I
specify them within the URL (like http://seangrisham:[e-mail]),
the firefox displays the popup window:
You are about to login to the site "www.test-site.com" with the username
"seangrisham". 

I've been told there's no setting to change this behaviour and I'd like to file
this feature request to make a setting for this popup window not to show up.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Sorry I don't have an open test web-server I can provide you with the login
for, but try accessing an URL like: http://seangrisham:[e-mail]

Actual Results:  
A popup window You are about to login to the site "www.test-site.com" with the
username "seangrisham" comes up.


Expected Results:  
I'd like to have a setting in preferences to get rid of the Firefox popup window.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

You can effectively disable this by using about:config to set
network.http.phishy-userpass-length to a number larger than any user name you
use to login.

See bug 243572 comment 3 and bug 276018 comment 2.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 243572 ***