780994 - BrowserID/Persona does not open to allow authentication

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 786656

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Editing, defect)

Description

[Jeff Beatty [:gueroJeff]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Build ID: 20120713134347

Steps to reproduce:

I clicked on the "Sign In" BrowserID icon. I did this from a number of different MDN wiki pages, as well as through the you're sent to via the "Edit" button.


Actual results:

A new window opened and closed very briefly without giving me a chance to log in. The MDN page became busy and I remained logged out.


Expected results:

The BrowserID window should have opened, allowing me to enter my email address, password, and sign in. Then the MDN page should have refreshed, showing me as having authenticated.

Comment 1

[Jeff Beatty [:gueroJeff]]

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Comment 2

[Jeff Beatty [:gueroJeff]]

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Comment 3

[Jeff Beatty [:gueroJeff]]

I recently attenpted to log in with BrowserId via a new Firefox profile, and it worked perfectly. I'm not sure what that means though.

Comment 4

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Someone else had the same problem.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767111#c17

Opening bug 786652 about this.

Comment 5

[Jeff Beatty [:gueroJeff]]

(In reply to John Karahalis [:openjck] from comment #4)
> Someone else had the same problem.
> 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767111#c17
> 
> Opening bug 786652 about this.

Thanks but I think that this is a different issue. Even using a new profile the browserid window opens for a split second & closes before allowing me to do anything. If I read your link correctly, browserid seemed to work in that case when using it with a different profile.

Comment 6

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

It sounds like it, yeah. How were you able to log in with BrowserID in a new profile if the window still cosed immediately?

Comment 7

[Jeff Beatty [:gueroJeff]]

(In reply to John Karahalis [:openjck] from comment #6)
> It sounds like it, yeah. How were you able to log in with BrowserID in a new
> profile if the window still cosed immediately?

I'm sorry. I'm an idiot. It did work perfectly. Please disregard my last comment. We just had a baby a few weeks ago and in my sleep-deprived state I'm thinking very stupidly :/

Comment 8

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Not a problem. I just graduated, so I remember what being sleep-deprived is like.

I'll be sure we look into it.

Comment 9

[Jeff Beatty [:gueroJeff]]

Thanks for understanding :-)

Comment 12

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

(In reply to jbeatty from comment #3)
> I recently attenpted to log in with BrowserId via a new Firefox profile, and
> it worked perfectly. I'm not sure what that means though.

Was sorting through old bugs when I thought of something. Can you log into other Persona-powered services (like https://mozillians.org/en-US/) with your normal Firefox profile? Can you log into other Persona-powered services with your other profile?