249762 - Firefox shows htaccess password entry prompt on startup when favicon is protected by htaccess

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 133755

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Prasenjeet Dutta]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Lightningimpala/0.9 (Firefox/0.9)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Lightningimpala/0.9 (Firefox/0.9)

1. I have a intranet-accessible server http://internal.foo.com/ that's protected
   by Basic authentication (AuthType Basic on Apache).
2. It has a favicon, http://internal.foo.com/favicon.ico.
3. Firefox is set to "Use Blank Page" as its homepage.
4. A bookmark in Firefox's "Bookmarks Toolbar Folder" points to
   http://internal.foo.com/.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Firefox by double-clicking its shortcut icon on the desktop,
   or by another means.

Actual Results:  
1. Firefox opens and shows the home page (blank in this case).
2. Almost immediately, I see Firefox's Basic/Digest
   authentication dialog asking me to
   enter the username/password for the internal.foo.com realm.
3. I notice that the favicon for the internal.foo.com bookmark
   in the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder is not visible.
3. Since I am using Password Manager, I just press OK to enter the
   username/password automatically.
4. Once I press OK, the dialog goes away. The favicon for the
   internal.foo.com bookmark in the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder is
   now *visible*.


Expected Results:  
Firefox should have just opened the home page and not shown the authentication
dialog on startup.


1. I am using Firefox 0.9.1.
2. It's highly irritating to have that dialog pop up every time one
   starts the browser. Can this one please be reprioritized "Major"?

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 133755 ***

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

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