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Unable to login to local intranet site now with Firefox 40 on OS 10.10.4, what changed?

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We have a local intranet site and I get into that fine, but go to click on a link that goes to another internal site for our phone list and it doesn't ask for my credentials to get into the page, it just comes up with a 401 error like I entered the wrong credentials. Things were fine with 39.0.3 and I have since then moved back to it. Using Firefox 40 on Windows 7 it asks for credentials. Wondering if this is some sort of bug in the OS X version?

I do not have saved passwords and not logged into other windows or tabs already.

Something changed in Firefox 40, but not sure what. I looked at the change log, but didn't see anything that stuck out that may have caused this.

We have a local intranet site and I get into that fine, but go to click on a link that goes to another internal site for our phone list and it doesn't ask for my credentials to get into the page, it just comes up with a 401 error like I entered the wrong credentials. Things were fine with 39.0.3 and I have since then moved back to it. Using Firefox 40 on Windows 7 it asks for credentials. Wondering if this is some sort of bug in the OS X version? I do not have saved passwords and not logged into other windows or tabs already. Something changed in Firefox 40, but not sure what. I looked at the change log, but didn't see anything that stuck out that may have caused this.

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if you control the environment, then you could try to get it working by setting network.auth.allow-subresource-auth to 2 like it's proposed in the article. i know too little about the subject to know why it would work in a windows environment but not on os x - that's a bit baffling...

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philipp
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hi cashxx, please refer to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/40/Site_Compatibility#Security

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Shoot I over looked that! Though I wonder why Windows it still asks for credentials? 

Sounds like it was a bug before that got fixed if you are referring to HTTP auth dialog can no longer be triggered by cross-origin resources on that link?
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if you control the environment, then you could try to get it working by setting network.auth.allow-subresource-auth to 2 like it's proposed in the article. i know too little about the subject to know why it would work in a windows environment but not on os x - that's a bit baffling...