AutoAuth
Note: watch the AutoAuth section of my blog for information on updates to this extension.
AutoAuth is an extension for Mozilla-based Web browsers that automatically submits HTTP authentication dialogs when you've chosen to have the browser save your login information. (If you've already told the browser what your username and password are, and you've told it to remember that username and password, why not just have it automatically submit it instead of asking you each time?)
If you don't have a username and password saved for a subdomain (e.g., foo.bar.com), AutoAuth will give you a list of suggestions for that domain, based on other saved usernames and passwords for similar subdomains (e.g., bar.com or *.bar.com). Just choose which username to use from the list, and hit the Autofill button:
If you're having trouble with the extension or would like to see a new feature added, you can:
- Contact me (@cfinke) on Twitter
- Fill out a this bug report form. (If you're requesting a new feature, just disregard any text about reproducing a bug.)
- or e-mail me at cfinke@gmail.com.
Christopher Finke is a software engineer at Mahalo. He is available for birthday parties and bar mitzvahs. 
May 11th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
[...] pushed out updates to two of my Firefox extensions: AutoAuth and Feed Sidebar (formerly [...]
June 1st, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Hi! :)
I couldn't make it work, see discussion here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4949
Thanks. :)
June 18th, 2007 at 8:43 am
When going to a page that requires authentication and your password is bad, AuthAuth continually tries to authenticate to that page. It should just popup the authentication dialog so that the user can fix the password and resubmit. As it is, I don't see any way for a user to update their password.
PS: To stop the flashing, close the tab.
I posted this at the addons.mozilla.org site as well.
Also I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.4.
July 11th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
[...] updated the AutoAuth Firefox extension with a "suggestion" feature: if no username/password is saved for a site, AutoAuth will supply a [...]
July 17th, 2007 at 8:07 am
[...] AutoAuth 1.1.1 [...]
October 30th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Nice concept.
I tried it for a site that is annoying me today and no joy. Apparently it doesn't fill forms, only HTTP Auth requests? Not sure what that means exactly, but didn't work for me.
Would be great if it did form filling and auto-submission too, as many times use for access control. Then it would be REALLY cool...
November 29th, 2007 at 5:56 am
Can you add a feature to detect when it gets stuck in a bad password loop? Thanks
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Yeah, password change it flashing. How can I change the saved password?
December 14th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Options tab is grayed out and I cannot use this add-on at all, even after two installation attempts.
Why not at least offer a context menu item to enter the un/pw for any given site desired?
January 6th, 2008 at 3:52 am
Please work in Mozilla Thunderbird.
Because the reason is because there is RSS feeding in a basic certification area.
January 19th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
I don't understand how it's work (perhaps it doesn't work :)... Can you make a demo?
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Hi, when i going to a page that using multiple accounts for authentication, i cant select between saved accounts :(
January 28th, 2008 at 4:28 am
Would you be so kind to make the xpi installable in Thunderbird as well ?
This would fill in my proxy credentials whenever I receive a mail with www content.
Thanks a lot for this so nice extension.
Pierre.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Thank you, works fine and is very useful for me
February 8th, 2008 at 10:31 am
This is a great extension and saved me 15-30 minutes a day entering in authentication information where I work. We do a lot of web work on many different environments and domains and it is so wonderful not having to re-type account information over and over again for new projects.
You rock!
March 20th, 2008 at 8:30 am
Can you change it to be compatible with 3.0b5pre. I use nightlies and its a pain to keep editing the xpi everytime there is a version bump.
Thanks,
May 20th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Hi !
Excellent extension !!!!! One problem though, the "Autofill with" stopped working all together, it does not even give me the button or suggestions. I'm now only using this extension for auto-OK when I have a saved password, but I really miss the suggestions !
Thanks,
--C.
August 8th, 2008 at 9:49 am
1.2.3 does not work with 3.0.1 Help
August 25th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Please give me wildcards.
PLEEEEAAAASSSEEEE
September 26th, 2008 at 12:50 am
This fantastic thing does not work with 3.0.2 FireFox.... Help please...
p.s. Sorry for my English...
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:03 pm
I've made a slight modification to the extension. I removed the autofill feature, and perfected the selection of the account for usage. Also restricted the extension to Firefox 3.0 only.
You can get it here:
http://agachi.name/misc/autoauth-1.2.5.xpi
November 19th, 2008 at 7:03 am
GREAT !! GREAT !!
Just what i was looking for since ages.
One question:
Can you please add a plug-in preference in order to
attempt to give a stored set of credentials when
these are empty or "remember flag" not set ?
When the proxy return a CACHE_ACCESS_DENIED sometimes
for a known squid-proxy error, the authentication form
appear blanked out, but my stored credential was perfectly
valid and a manual entry is needed.
If you store a user/pwd pair on plugin preference it could
work this way:
1- If auth data are already cached in the form, sumbit those
2- If auth data failed to authenticate, or form data empty, try alternate auth stored into preferences
3- if both fails, then do not loop-retry but just show the regular auth form
This way, it will be perfect!
December 4th, 2008 at 1:08 am
I don't get it. How does it work?
December 5th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Hi Chris,
It seems that for the newest AutoAuth version 1.3 something was changed causing AutoAuth to not submit the authentication dialog box on page load. I reverted back to version 1.2.3 and everything works as desired. I know that there is still the existing looping issue for incorrect username and passwords, but I am not sure if your fix for the looping issue has caused AutoAuth to not submit the authentication dialog box automatically by design or by accident.
Please weigh in on this issue if you have a moment, and thank you for your efforts on such a convenient plugin for firefox.
Thank you!
February 24th, 2009 at 4:00 am
Hi,
Just to confirm what Gabe said. On startup with many tabs, AutoAuth 1.3 stops after first dialog connection box.
I revert to 1.2.3 and it works again (great).
Can you add a way to disable the check introduced in 1.3 or limit its effect.
Thank you for this great plugin.
March 9th, 2009 at 3:14 am
Chris
I want to use AutoAuth to automatically submit proxy authentication dialog boxes when Firefox starts. Firefox presents a proxy authentication dialog box for every tab in the session being restored, which can be 50+.
As Gabe and Gilles says, version 1.3 does not seem to work properly when Firefox is starting: i.e. I still get approximately 50 dialog boxes to click OK on.
Fortunately, version 1.2.3 works perfectly.
Please can you try make AutoAuth work correctly on Firefox startup again, as I would like to take advantage of the fix to incorrect authentication details as well.
Thanks for such a useful extension.
Roger
March 26th, 2009 at 6:50 am
I was looking for an extension like this for a long time! It fix a very annoying Firefox behavior that some people here at my work uses as an excuse for not using Firefox.
Thank you very much!
(sorry for my bad english :) )
Fábio Alves Corrêa
April 30th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Hi! That's a nice fix for the bad firefox design. Unfortunately it doesn't work for me, because there are some Websites at which I have to work with different accounts. So sometimes I need the normally annoying dialog box.
Could you:
1) make a configurable exception list for your plugin, so that I can add these web sites to it and you plugin will just do nothing for these web sites or pops up an account selection dialog? (sometimes I have only one account stored but need to enter a different account name without saving it in the password store).
I think there were some other users requesting a similar feature, so I am not alone :)
May 1st, 2009 at 6:00 am
Can some1 plz tell how to use this..The option tab is greyed...i have no clue...how to make it work..
May 4th, 2009 at 8:10 am
as per the above things...
itd be good to be able to set up domains like *google.com and itll submit the user/pass for the whole domain like 29google.com and mail.google.com and google.com/mail etc similar to how foxyproxy makes white/black lists..
May 5th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
This doesn't work at all for me. Behind the latest squid proxy. No interface on page load or on any other tab.
May 13th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
I hope 'ALLWAY AUTH CANCEL' option.
It works Same as ESC key.
June 8th, 2009 at 10:03 am
Thank you, works fine and is very useful for me