User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060707 Firefox/2.0b1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060707 Firefox/2.0b1 Trying to access an RSS feed which is protected by HTTP Basic Authentication is not possible via Live Bookmarks. You are able to login, and subscribe, however when you next load the browser, you are not longer authenticated. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Login to a HTTP Basic Authentication Feed 2. Click 'subscribe', using Live Bookmarks as your reader. 3. Verify that the feed loads via the bookmarks toolbar (click feed to see items) 4. Close the browser 5. Open the browser, and look at the live bookmark. Actual Results: Firefox does not prompt for authentication, nor allow you to authenticate in any way. Expected Results: Firefox prompts for authentication (or silently logins in, see bug #117592)

You can automatically authenticate using the http://username:password@example.com syntax in the Live Bookmark's URL.

While that's possible; the use I have for this feature is to provide feeds over HTTPS + basic authentication. I do not wish to disclose a password + username so readily - a simple copy and paste of the bookmark. Our users all (in theory) set the master password in firefox to keep their passwords safely stored away from prying eyes. It would be undoubtedly good if http://username@www.foo.com/ could be used to automagically determine the right password for www.foo.com, in the event of multiple user accounts.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 254534 ***