470368 - Asking Proxy Authentication for every tab in firefox not like IE7

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 348997

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[mrsha]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5

Asking proxy authentication for every tab when opening firefox after closing with saved multiple tab.
But IE get only one time proxy authentication for whole browser with n- number of tab.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch firefox
2. Open any websites which need proxy authentication and give proxy authentication
3. Open other n websites from other tab from same window.(Proxy authentication not required now)(say n=5)(Totally n+1 tabs)
4. Try to close the firefox 
5. In the "Quit Firefox" message box click "Save and Quit"
6. Open firefox again.


Actual Results:  
Its asking proxy authentication for n+1 times.

Expected Results:  
It should ask proxy authentication for only 1 times like IE7.

In IE7, its happening.

Prerequisites:
A valid internet connection with Proxy server.

Comment 2

[[:fabrice] Fabrice Desré]

https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/cypress/rev/7099b4cceabb