On Fri, 23 Jul 2021 at 11:43, Valeri Galtsev galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote:
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).
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.