One of the main reasons I don’t use Firefox in an Intranet environment, is due to the logon prompt from IIS Windows Authentication. I keep having problems with IE7 on Vista losing the auto-NTLM auth, where it asks for my password, when it’s supposed to just log me in based on my domain logon! ARgh! So I started Google-ing and found out that Firefox can do this too!!! I never knew that, in all these years of Firefox use!
You have to set which sites are allowed to do this though. But that’s fine, not like I login with NTLM all over the place, just a couple sites from the Intranet. Go to about:config in Firefox, lookup all the “network:auth” items and you’ll see this one:
network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris
Open that, and enter the website address. (even port if needed) BAM! That’s it!
For example:
webapp.servername.local:8080
This will use automatic NTLM logons based on your windows logon. But note: I do not know if this works if your machine is not a member of a domain.
Someone left a comment and I think I bulk deleted it on accident. Whoever you are, sorry about that. If you like, post again, I’ll remove my comment.
Anyway, your comment on adding multiple sites is a good point. So to add more than one site to this list, just use comma separated list. (site1.com, site2.net, etc)
Where the heck is about:config? Firefox 2.0.
about:config is like a Mozilla “registry” of settings builtin to it. You get to it by typing that directly in your URL address bar. Like you are browsing to it.
Oooh, this is nice
Now I can use Firefox (without IEtab) for our company intranet! Thanks! I always, like you, assumed that automatic Windows Authentication was unavailable for Firefox :O
Quite important though, the comma seperated list is actually comma and space seperated. It didn’t work at first, until I put a space after the comma.