Just did a little bit of testing, and this problem does not seem to occur on basic authentication, only on pages with Windows-based authentication dialog boxes. To confirm, I used tested Firefox running Ubuntu Firefox Modifications using the public testing endpoint at https://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/passwd (with both HTTP and HTTPS). The username is "user" and the password is "passwd" for this particular endpoint. No problems were encountered here, since this is basic authentication instead of Windows authentication.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ubufox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1058315 Title: ubuntu firefox modifications add-on makes firefox is unresponsive when accessing webserver using windows based authentication Status in “ubufox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When accessing a Windows based webserver from work where my work (Active Directory) credentials are required Firefox becomes largely unresponsive. It does seem to process the website, but it isn't usable anymore and the firefox windows greys out for most of the time. It even sometimes causes the whole desktop to become unresponsive forcing me to switch to a VT and kill firefox. It took me a while to find out that disabling the 'Ubuntu Firefox Modifications' add-on that fixed the problem. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubufox/+bug/1058315/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
