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The ULANZ form (which, as of April this year requires you to log in to it each time) is currently affected by the insecure login popups that come with the latest Firefox update (52 ESR), this is the same issue we are having with the MyAccount login (see counterculture post from last week).
However, the ULANZ form requires you to have already logged in to the Library Webapps area, which is secure, so you don’t need to worry about the “insecure login” messages. The popups can make it difficult to complete the login to the form and scan in the person’s barcode. You can do it by tabbing from input field to input field and then hitting submit after you have scanned in a barcode.
If you are finding this exceedingly tedious – there is a workaround, but it will turn this security feature off for everyone using Firefox on your login (e.g. the front desk logins), and not protect you from potentially logging in to other insecure sites (http rather than https sites). So proceed through the steps below at your risk, and with agreement from your colleagues.
- Open a new tab, paste about:config into the address bar and hit enter.
If you see the “This Might Void Your Warranty” page, click the blue “I accept the risk!” button. (Understand we are manually modifying Firefox’s default settings). - In the Search box at the top, paste security.insecure_field_warning.contextual.enabled
- Double click the setting to change it to “false”, to disable Firefox’s insecure password warning.
Done! Now when you visit pages with HTTP login forms, the warning will no longer appear.
The above methodology was taken from https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/disable-firefox-insecure-password-warnings/