Questions tagged [firefox]

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite.

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Remotely from Chrome or IE page loads ~60seconds, from Firefox or IE on local machine - instantly

The problem: If i access SharePoint from Windows 7 with IE8 or Chrome5 - I must wait for like a minute to get a response. If i use other Windows 7 with IE8, just the same - just wait a MINUTE. If i use Firefox3.6 on W7 machine - page opens…
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Problem with Firefox and DropMyRights

Trying to set up Firefox to run as limited user in admin account using DropMyRights (Firefox 3, Windows XP Pro, SP3). I had it working fine for a while, then it starting failing. Firefox process starts and immediately exits when run under…
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How do you configure browser proxy settings in a centralized fashion

I am hoping that I would be able to get an answer to this question here my question at stackoverflow.com How do you configure browser proxy settings in a centralized fashion? Our development environment consists of many operating systems (Win XP,…
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GCP panes do not show any project items in Firefox normal mode, the items only show up in Firefox incognito mode or Google Chrome normal mode

I am not sure whether this fits to Server Fault Stack Exchange, and it has already been closed on Super User Stack Exchange. It is a problem of Firefox, not of GCP. GCP panes do not show any filled items in any of the GCP projects in Firefox normal…
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Nginx Redirect from HTTP to HTTPS works in Firefox but not in Chrome

with my Nginx configuration (see below) redirecting from http to https works fine when accessing the page (http://example.com/) with Firefox. But for some strange reason it does not work with Chrome. server { listen 80; …
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Why Firefox doesnt work with split DNS / Host Overrides?

I have configured Host overrides in pfSense and other browsers like Chrome and Edge work fine but Firefox simply does not resolve giving "Unable to connect" error. This is the same on my laptop with fresh install of Firefox with default settings.…
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How do browsers cache PAC files?

How do browsers and other applications cache PAC files? If I'm serving a PAC file and update the configuration (e.g. add or remove a domain that should go through the proxy), when will different browsers recognize the updated configuration? Is there…
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Debug client certificate authentification in Firefox

I'm having trouble determining why Firefox is not applying client certificate authentification in a particular situation. I have a self-signed client certificate issued for a specific site (nginx mutual TLS) that works when accessing the site using…
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Maximum SSL certificate duration

Using openSSL, it looks like the maximum -days I can use is 11499 based on the conversation here. However, if I want to sign it by a certification authority, how long will be the maximum certification duration?
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[Firefox and nginx]: Firefox seems to cache and deliver the content of the wrong subdomain

I'm currently running a mix of different services under different subdomains: a.example.com: Docker container behind nginx proxy b.example.com: nginx site c.example.com: Docker container behind nginx proxy a and c share the same ipv4, b has it's own…
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How to setup Apache for more simultaneous connections by user?

I run a virtual CentOS 5 server with Apache 2 and PHP under FastCGI, using mod_fcgid. I've built an application which relies heavily on Ajax, and in one case uses a popup with PHP flushing to allow the application to work in realtime during a long…
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Cannot open certain websites when SOCKS 5 DNS proxy is enabled on Firefox

Using the terminal, I run the following. ssh admin@1.2.3.4 -i ~/.ssh/admin -N -D 9090 Firefox is configured as follow. Many websites work just fine, but certain ones fails and the following error is thrown on the terminal. channel 1: open failed:…
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Firefox addon uninstall through registry

I have installed a Firefox add-on by adding a key-value pair in the registry under the following path- Software\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox\Extensions\Install\1 = "https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/myfile.xpi" The installation works I want…
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Unable to open Firefox and some other applications after switching to new NIS and NFS servers

We have just upgraded two servers providing a number of services to our network including NFS and NIS. User authentication is done by one server (serverA) and home directories and a number of shared folders are provided by an NFS share from another…
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How to add extensions to whitelist on firefox GPO

So I have tried all of the things that I could think of, I have used the suggested json that firefox have on their git hub found here: https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/v1.9_release/README.md#extensionsettings I have tried this which…