Entering staging environment on Safari

[SanelQI]

Background
In the previous version of NightWatch, I would run against Chrome, Edge and Firefox and am testing against a website that requires security credentials to be added in (for entering staging env). I was able to get around this by opening a launch_url like this
https://USERNAME:[email protected]
While I am able to do the same thing in NightWatch v2 against Chrome, Edge and Firefox, when running my scripts against Safari, despite entering in the URL with the security credentials already included, I am still met with an additional prompt (443) to enter in the credentials.
Additionaly, on Safari version 18.4 this is not the case and works like in other browsers.
This is an additional prompt: