If some AJAX functionality does not work, but you see Firefox making an OPTIONS request, the reasons is most likely this:

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You're accidently trying to talk to a different domain (or switching from http to https), and Firefox tries to find out if that is okay, according to the "Cross-Origin Resource Sharing" standard.