Closed Bug 346226 Opened 18 years ago Closed 18 years ago

Live bookmarks fails to load on startup if using proxy with authentication

Categories

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Bookmarks & History
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 266348

People

(Reporter: t_pradeepkumar, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1a3) Gecko/20060526 BonEcho/2.0a3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1a3) Gecko/20060526 BonEcho/2.0a3

The live bookmarks show the popup "Live bookmark failed to load" after starting firefox

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. You need to behind a proxy which requires authentication. In my case Squid. Have firefox configured correctly with the proxy settings.
2. Add a few live bookmarks for testing.
3. Close and restart firefox
4. Check the live bookmarks

Actual Results:  
All the live bookmarks report as "failed to load". It loads only if u manually right click each one of them and say "reload live bookmark".

Expected Results:  
At startup Should have prompted me with the proxy authentication dialog and proceeded to load the live bookmarks.
A much better way(less forceful) would be to wait for the user to dropdown(or mouseover) a live bookmark to look at the posts and then challenge the user if required and after successful authentication start loading all live bookmarks.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 266348 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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