1482877 - Firefox doesn't save login and password for proxy.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1446265

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[kowalptk]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.87 Safari/537.36 OPR/54.0.2952.60

Steps to reproduce:

I use proxy server for surfing the internet, browser is prompting me every time for proxy authentication username and password. There is no "save password" checkbox or something like that. 


Actual results:

Every time when i want to use firefox for surfing the net i have to enter my username and password for proxy authentication... everytime. This is so annoying! In my organization there is about 500 users and every user has this problem.


Expected results:

Proxy authentication prompt should have "save password" checkbox or proxy configuration settings should have option for define the username and password and save it in browser.

Comment 1

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

I suspect this is something that Necko manages - but please feel free to needinfo me if I have the wrong component.

Comment 2

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

Maybe I remember it incorrectly, but it used to remember passwords. Or maybe that was back when I was using LastPass?
Honza, you know the proxy authentication a bit better than I do. Any idea where the code to make it remember passwords would go?

Comment 3

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

Attachment: Proxy save password as it should appear

(In reply to Valentin Gosu [:valentin] from comment #2)
> Maybe I remember it incorrectly, but it used to remember passwords. Or maybe
> that was back when I was using LastPass?
> Honza, you know the proxy authentication a bit better than I do. Any idea
> where the code to make it remember passwords would go?

It's exactly the same code as for end server (web) http auth.  You should be getting the same save password popup as for web http auth and for web form auth.

However, either with the standard settings or when session restore is set, I only get the "save password" popup when I:
- cancel all proxy password prompts appearing before any navigation is started
- go to whatever web page by typing to the address bar (or clicking a tile on the homepage)
- fill the password for the proxy now (correctly)
- the page begins to load

Any other way the save password popup (see the attachment) doesn't appear.

Comment 4

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Sounds like a duplicate of bug 1446265? Reporter, is the dialog appearing right when the browser starts?

Comment 5

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Can you try cancelling the initial prompts and only allow one that's triggered by a load in a tab like comment 3 mentions. You should see the prompt then. That's just a workaround and bug 1446265 would be the proper solution.

Comment 6

[kowalptk]

Hi everyone, dialog is appearing instantly after brower starts. I rememeber there was a "save password" checkbox few version before Firefox was updated to Quantum. If i cancel the prompts then i don't have access to the internet. My workaround for this bug is extension FoxyProxy where i can save the username and password but heh... it should be in browser without any extensions.