[Bug 225861] [NEW] XHR in chrome window does not show authentication dialog

[Rob Van Dam]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Description:	Ubuntu 8.04
Release:	8.04

Bugzilla bug #420578 was reported fixed in 3.0b5 but still occurs in
3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3.

An XHR to a page with standard http authentication (i.e. via .htaccess)
should pop up an authentication dialog.  If the XHR occurs in a chrome
context (such as in an extension) the 401 error is ignored and no
authentication dialog is shown.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425078
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.ajax/browse_thread/thread/c327ca11804b7812/a05aa8c5f7d26b05#a05aa8c5f7d26b05

Works in Firefox 2
Fails in Ubuntu Firefox 3.0b5  :              Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008041514 Firefox/3.0b5
Works in Minefield nightly trunk build : Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008050204 Minefield/3.0pre

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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XHR in chrome window does not show authentication dialog
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