Home-built 56.0.3 on FreeBSD-CURRENT fails to present a modal authentication for URLs such as these: <https://servicedesk.brighton.ac.uk/> <https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/> A modal authentication dialogue _does_ appear in response to a click on 'Sophos Installers' at <https://security.brighton.ac.uk/>. Not reproducible with 56.0.2_1 on the same machine. Not reproducible with 56.0.3 on Linux, Mac OS X 10.12.6 or Windows 7 Enterprise.
Tracked down to files/patch-bug1409449 which backports https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/rev/f75756056fc4
A commit references this bug: Author: jbeich Date: Wed Jan 17 08:59:13 UTC 2018 New revision: 459226 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/459226 Log: www/waterfox: unbreak HTTP auth dialog after r458873 PR: 225231 Reported by: Graham Perrin Changes: head/www/waterfox/Makefile head/www/waterfox/files/patch-bug1425156
A commit references this bug: Author: jbeich Date: Wed Jan 17 08:59:58 UTC 2018 New revision: 459227 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/459227 Log: MFH: r459226 www/waterfox: unbreak HTTP auth dialog after r458873 PR: 225231 Reported by: Graham Perrin Approved by: ports-secteam blanket Changes: _U branches/2018Q1/ branches/2018Q1/www/waterfox/Makefile branches/2018Q1/www/waterfox/files/patch-bug1425156
Fix confirmed (tested: 56.0.3_2). Thanks for identifying the cause, and fixing, so quickly!