312521 - Basic Authentication windows is no longer modal in Firefox 1.5 beta

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Kraft [:morac]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051014 Firefox/1.4.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051014 Firefox/1.4.1

Basic authentication windows that popup asking for username/password for a page
are no longer modal in Firefox 1.5.

No browser activities such as switching tabs or navigating can occur until the
authentication window has been closed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to https://www.thawte.com/cgi/personal/contents.exe
2. After authentication window pops up, click browser


Actual Results:  
Authentication window goes behind browser window.

Expected Results:  
Authentication window should always be on top since browsing cannot continue
until window closed (either by entering correct username/password or canceling).

Comment 1

[Nitin (vfwlkr)]

WFM as of Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5)
Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1

Comment 2

[Michael Kraft [:morac]]

I want to correct my original report.  The basic authentication is modal in
Firefox 1.5 B2.  It is not modal in the October 14th nightly.

So some time between October 7th and October 14th this changed.  

On a side note, the change causes the Roboform Firefox 1.5 adapter not to work
since it looks for modal windows.

Comment 3

[Michael Kraft [:morac]]

I've tracked down to where it broke. It broke somewhere between 20051012 and
20051014.  There doesn't seem to be a 20051013 nightly for Windows so I can't
test that one.

Works:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051012
Firefox/1.4.1

Broken:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051014
Firefox/1.4.1

Comment 4

[Michael Kraft [:morac]]

Sorry for the large number of updates, but I found the 1013 build (not sure how
I missed it) and found that the Basic Authentication became non-modal in that
build.  So to recap.

Modal:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051012
Firefox/1.4.1

Non-modal:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051013
Firefox/1.4.1

Comment 5

[Michael Kraft [:morac]]

Is it possible that the fix for
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298987
caused this?

Comment 6

[Michael Kraft [:morac]]

I'm withdrawing this bug since it seems to be caused by having Roboform
installed.   I thought I tested without it installed but apparently I did not.
Sorry for the inconvenience.