Firefox in Ubuntu : how to automate basic authentication password confirm dialog

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Published on 2009-09-24T12:56:14Z Indexed on 2010/03/27 18:13 UTC
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Hi, I have an Ubuntu workstation with Firefox always open on a (autorefreshing) web page protected by basic auth.

At startup, I have autologin and automatic Firefox start on the page and I have saved the basic auth credentials.

I'd like to confirm in some automated way the username/password dialog box which pops up on the first opening of the page, or I'd like to know if there's any hack to avoid this dialog box.

I tried setting the homepage to http://username%3Apassword@myserver/mypage put that doesn't stop confirmation dialog boxes.

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