403243 - Upgrade to version 2.0.0.9 broke http proxy authentication dialog box

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[John MacLaren]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
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Had been working fine with ISA proxy server at work in version 2.0.0.8 and below.  I had setup to remember password for proxy server at work and when first loading Firefox it would prompt for proxy auth for each tab I had open going to external websites.  Since 2.0 it was continually prompting for each http get request on pages, i.e. for each image or ajax component, etc.  After search on the web I found a post indicating that using the about:config settings I could update the following setting ( network.auth.use-sspi = false  ) to remove the continuous prompting after the initial proxy auth setting when restarting Firefox.  This worked fine in 2.0.0.8.  I just installed the 2.0.0.9 update today and now when Firefox restarts the proxy prompting dialog box is unusable, it shows some text and the outlines of the OK and Cancel buttons but the buttons do not work and have no labels.  

No matter which buttons I click I cannot get past these incomplete dialog windows and am forced to kill the Firefox process.

Firefox 2.0.0.9 works OK in network where I do not need proxy authentication.  At home for instance.  I use Thinkpad Access Connections to manage my wired and wireless network settings and it automatically updates the Firefox and IE proxy settings based on which network I am connected to .



Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[John MacLaren]

Attachment: PDF showing proxy authentication dialog at Firefox restart

Comment 2

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

The screenshot almost looks like the one in bug 338549, not sure if there's a relation though.

Comment 3

[John MacLaren]

Attachment: Converted screenshot to png file for easier viewing, did not have a way to do that when first posted PDF

Comment 4

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

WFM on OS X, I'll try Windows tomorrow.

Comment 5

[John MacLaren]

I manually edited prefs.js to change the network.auth.use-sspi back to false and then proxy auth prompts appeared correctly again.  Basically what I was trying to fix was the repeated proxy requests for login for every get on an html page.  This seems to have been broken since Firefox 2.x.  I understand having to initially authenticate to the proxy server but even though I am clicking remember login Firefox continues to prompt for every subsequent page in that same domain whereas with IE once I authenticate once per browser session every page or website I open in that session does not repeatedly prompt for proxy authentication.  At work an ISA proxy server is being used and there was several posts on the Internet about ISA and Firefox in particular do not play well together.  

What is interesting is that using about:config to set network.auth.use-sspi to true does stop the prompting for the rest of the session but when I closed Firefox and then tried to re-open thats when the graphical issues with the proxy prompts appear like in the PDF.

Comment 6

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Is this only happening when you first launch the browser and it's opening up restored tabs, or does it happen after that (ie, start with just a blank tab, then start visiting pages.)

Also, would you be able to test this with Firefox 3 Beta 2? [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html] The extra logging there might be helpful: Enable |signon.debug| and |javascript.options.showInConsole| in about:config, restart, and report what's logged in Tools -> Error Console.

It sounds like this needs a proxy using the Windows auth stuff to reproduce, and I don't have such a proxy here.

Comment 7

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Not much to go on here, and seem to be an isolated problem as far as I can tell (ie, not seeing other reports like this).

The most help would be to reproduce this on Firefox 3 and enable logging. See http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox:Password_Manager_Debugging. Reopen if you can do that and provide a log.