network.http.phishy.user-password-length deprecation workaround?
I need an UNATTENDED PC to login to a webpage with basic authentication when the PC starts up (e.g. power restored). I used to be able to do this putting Firefox in Startup with homepage using URL (https) including user/password. Unfortunately in last PC restore I forgot to turn off Firefox automatic updates and new version has deprecated network.http.phishy.user-password-length so PC stops login with popup which is BIG problem on unattended PC. Any workaround for this lovely new feature? Thanks.
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Could you check the spelling -- I believe you want to set:
network.http.phishy-userpass-length
Does that still work?
did you check the lastest firefox for existence of this setting? i listed everything starting with network and didn't find it...but I am occasionally brain-dead...just tried again to search for "network.http.phishy"...nothing...I guess deprecations are not well documented...nothing on web either for deprecation
I love it...everyone thinks to leave documentation as afterthought but somehow always come up with RTFM
Modified by firefox9
I searched in the source code and it looked unchanged from Firefox 4.
This preference needs to created manually:
(1) Select and copy the preference name so you can easily paste it later
(2) Right-click somewhere in about:config, and click
New > Integer
(3) In the dialog asking for a preference name, paste and then click OK or press Enter
(4) In the dialog asking for a preference value, try some number between 1 and 255, and then click OK or press Enter
By the way, when researching obscure preferences, try this site, which is a little more hardcore than our support site here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.phishy-userpass-length
Also, is there an Old Firefox Data folder on the desktop of the PC that updated after a long period of time? If so, the Refresh feature ran at some point, and you can drill down into that folder to look for old preferences files (prefs.js, user.js).
Ok...thanks...I guess this is all coming back to me from when I set it up 6 months or so ago...I guess I never found the original search result that solved it then...I think it took me a day or two last time...and of course I will forget where I found the info this time in 3 months...it would be great if the information about settings was searchable from the web...how many settings are there that need to be done manually and are not listed in about:config? weird...but thanks for instructions...definitely not intuitive
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We only allow Google to index threads that are marked SOLVED, so the power is in your hands.
(Also, I've noticed some people add strange unique strings of text to their posts so they can find them more easily in the future.)
maybe in someone's hands...I still use altavista (a nice empty yahoo page)...for my adroid devices I use 1mobile.com when I can...and my gmail for google store is googleophobe@gmail.com