OT: Firefox Question
Dear Experts,
My question is OT, as it is related to firefox, not CentOS system per se. Even more: my firefox runs on FreeBSD workstation. But I figured this list have largest likelihood of having experts in firefox (as well as on other things), so…
My firefox behavior changed after one of recent updates..
When one logs in to website that is locked using web password (e.g., set in .htacess/.htpasswd in apache), one gives username/password once. Then firefox remembers that while firefox is running, and you don’t have to give credentials (though authentication does happen behind the scenes all the time since). But not anymore for me at least on my (FreeBSD)
workstation: in the morning I discover firefox (though it had not been restarted) asks yet again credentials to websites I have been logged to. As if firefox purges credentials to websites after some period of time
(or inactivity on those websites).
This stared happening not long ago after one of updates firefox is known to release annoyingly often (as in: mozilla foundation forgot the meaning of the word “release” which means well debugged code some time about decade ago…).
I tried to find relevant setting in GUI preferences to no avail (maybe it is just me?), and hope, experts know deeper lying preferences, and may point me to relevant one.
All in all, I’m forced back onto my pursuit for replacement for firefox browser…
Thanks a lot for all your answers. And my apologies for rant (which I
was not able to separate due to my frustration…).
Valeri
2 thoughts on - OT: Firefox Question
Not happening for me on any of my platforms (though I don’t have BSD
beyond Mac) so the usual suspects need to be checked:
1. Have the websites you log into changed their policies. A lot of places are being required to shorten login credentials.
2. Is something causing your ip address for the workstation to change. This can cause the server to see the existing login transaction as invalid and requires reauthentication.
3. Is it something with that profile. Corruptions happen and sometimes you either have to restore from before it happened or start over with a new profile. The best way is to create a new profile and test but you can also just mv .firefox to .firefox-broke and start over too. Then log into some sites and then see if it happens.
I’ve noticed this as well, but it does seem to be limited to my FreeBSD
desktop and none of my Linux/Windows systems, and also limited to sites doing HTTP “basic” authentication. It’s pretty intermittent so it hasn’t come to the point where I’m annoyed enough to delve into the underlying causes, though it does seem correlated with when I upgraded from Firefox
89->90 so going over the change log might be in order.