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Proposed getting rid of username/password dialog for HTTP authentication and replace with web page-like interface.

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 * Allow user to continue to use the browser window while the password dialog is shown. Currently, Firefox switches to the tab that requests the password and denies the user any navigation. It ''should'' allow the user to switch tabs and continue browsing, just as if the user had multiple windows open.
 ** Better yet, all modal dialogs should work like that. --[[User:Pile0nades|Pile0nades]] 19:37, 31 October 2006 (PST)
+** To carry this idea further, get rid of the dialog window entirely, and replace it with a web page, like what has been done with the invalid SSL certificate dialog in Firefox 3 beta 3. In other words HTTP authentication would look like form-based authentication (except the page design should still make it clear that it's HTTP authentication). And yes, all modal dialogs should be replaced with something like this.
 * The dialog on the Master Password request alert labeled "Password Required" is not informative. "Please enter the master password for the Software Security Device" should be changed to something more informative as described on the [[Self Explaining Password Dialog]] page.