1141856 - Authentication Required on many sites on Ubuntu Trusty

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Nicholas Roberts]

Attachment: Authentication Required_062.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0
Build ID: 20150306140254

Steps to reproduce:

when I visit say CNN or any site with ads (dont they all?) I get an Apache style Authentication Required message

A username and password are being requested by http://widgets.outbrain.com. The site says: "documentroot"


Actual results:

I click cancel, but next ad appears asking for Authentication and so it goes


Expected results:

no Authentication Required

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

What are your proxy settings, and do you have extensions installed?

Does it happen in safe mode (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode)?  If it does not, please try disabling extensions (e.g., the first half, then the second half; then re-enable half of the half with the problem, etc) to see if any of them is the cause.

Comment 2

[Liviu Cirdei]

Closing this as incomplete due to inactivity and lack of response from the reporter. Feel free to reopen the bug if the issue still reproduces on a current build.