260186 - No way to logout from a HTTP login in Firefox

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[David Balažic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

After logging into a site with HTTP auth-basic ( or other HTTP auth ), there is
no way to logout ( make the browser forget the login ).
A logout button ( menu , keyboard shortcut ) is missing.
See same issoe on mozilla in bug 55181

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Håvar I. Henriksen [:havarh]]

There is already an extension that does this:
http://mmcc.cx/mozilla/
http://mmcc.cx/mozilla/clearhttpauth.xpi

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55181 ***

Comment 3

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

the folks in bug 55181 are pretty adamant that it's fixed for the Suite,
reopening this as the Firefox UI bug since I couldn't find another. An extension
to do it is nice, but it's a legitimate request for inbuilt functionality.

A further refinement is bug 260839, the ability to log out of a single site.
Possibly that's all anyone would need, but one of the two would be good.

Comment 4

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

*** Bug 289960 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

*** Bug 296200 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[David P James]

Mass edit: Changing QA to default QA Contact

Comment 7

[Michael Wu [:mwu]]

*** Bug 298600 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

This is long since fixed for the "log out of all authenticated sessions" case.

Comment 9

[Gummi]

Description and comment 3 are clear that this is a UI bug.
There is no “logout” button in firefox that expires a particular http-auth session.

You need to reopen.

Comment 10

[Gummi]

See bug 260839, my bad.