1300764 - On redirect, URL bar isn't updated until authorization has completed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 656343

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[nick.moriarty]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0
Build ID: 20160728204513

Steps to reproduce:

Follow any link which causes a redirect followed by a request for authentication - for example, follow a gmail link to a protected website, or open a site which redirects HTTP to HTTPS and then prompts for credentials.


Actual results:

The URL bar shows the original (un-redirected) address when the authentication dialog is presented.


Expected results:

The URL bar should update to show the redirected URL - i.e. the page which issued the 401 response - and then the authentication dialog should appear, so that the URL bar provides an indication of the correct source of the authentication request.

Comment 1

[Loic]

Do you have e10s (multiprocess) enabled in your Firefox profile?
Type about:config and check the string "browser.tabs.remote.autostart" to see if it's false (disabled).

If e10s is enabled, your issue is probably a dupe of bug 1300464.

Comment 2

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

I don't think this is e10s related (not tested manually!).  And I think this is duplicate of bug 528988.

Comment 3

[nick.moriarty]

I have two matching value for that:
- browser.tabs.remote.autostart is the default value (false)
- browser.tabs.remote.autostart.2 is user set to true

Comment 4

[Loic]

(In reply to Honza Bambas (:mayhemer) from comment #2)
> I don't think this is e10s related (not tested manually!).  And I think this
> is duplicate of bug 528988.

Indeed, similar to bug 656343 too.

Comment 5

[Valentin Gosu [:valentin] (he/him)]

(In reply to Loic from comment #4)
> Indeed, similar to bug 656343 too.

I agree.