nsPrompt.cpp has us trying to create a single signon prompt, which is part of wallet... it's creating a very strange dependency between embedding components and wallet. cc'ing morse for any ideas

No ideas. This is something that Warren Harris dropped into wallet a long time ago.

steve, do you have any idea what this code even does? I'm wondering if we can just rip it out :) I'm trying to figure it out right now..

It's the mozilla mechanism for putting up prompt messages. These messages are used heavily in wallet, which is why Warren put it there. But it is used in other places as well. These are all the messages of the form Do you want to allow this site to set a cookie Enter your username and password for http authentication Do you want to save your password etc.

reassigning qa contact to Dharma. Prompts is his area.

Conrad beat on prompts recently. cc'ing him for a glance.

nsPrompt is what hides wallet from nsIPromptService and thus embeddors. On the other end, through nsIAuthPrompt, it also hides wallet from necko. It had to be hidden somewhere. Before it was hidden here, the embeddor had to explicitly create a single-signon.

too much on my plate for 0.9.7

waterson has a patch *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 113538 ***

verified.