Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite.
Questions tagged [firefox]
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Integrated Windows Authentication with Chrome and FireFox
I have a webapplication which uses claims based authentication. The STS is ADFS 2.0.
When I am in the intranet and use IE, IWA is used and no login dialog appears. When I am on the internet zone, the Forms based authentication of ADFS is used. Just…

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Make firefox more accepting of self-signed SSL certs
Is there any plugin or setting for firefox that can simplify the invalid SSL certificate process to a single click, or even not put up any errors and just display a warning indicator?
Working on a dev network using self-signed cerificates for…

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The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown. (Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer) Firefox
A website wants to switch an SSL certificate from Network Solutions to Gandi. Everything seemed to be installed correctly except that there is an error being thrown in Firefox only. On Chrome and IE, there are no errors being thrown. It appears that…

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The OCSP response is not yet valid (contains a date in the future)
I'm getting this error when opening the site:
Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during a connection to http://practiceti.me
The OCSP response is not yet valid (contains a date in the future).
(Error code:…

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Completely disable "this plugin is vulnerable and should be updated" page in Firefox 18.0.2
I'm running Firefox 18.0.2 on some thin clients with Windows 7 Embedded - basically locked down web kiosks for customer use.
The clients are write protected and all updates are disabled, but once things like Flash or Adobe Reader get out of date…

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Firefox does not load certificate chain
I'm running lighttpd/1.4.28 (ssl) on Debian Squeeze. I just created a http://startssl.com certificate, I runs fine at all of my Browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Opera), but my users are reporting certificate-errors in Firefox. I already nailed it down to…

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sec_error_unknown_issuer but only with Firefox and IE6
I recently renewed the SSL certificate on my site and while initially it seemed that the certificated was installed correctly, I was shocked to discover hours ago that the HTTPS connection no longer authenticates correctly with certain browsers and…

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How can I get Firefox to display MIME types in-browser?
When I click on a *.json or *.patch file in Firefox, it asks me what external application I want to view it in.
However, I don't want to use an external application. It's plain text -- I just want to view it in-browser.
There doesn't seem to be…

mike
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NGINX - CORS error affecting only Firefox
this is an issue with Nginx that affects only firefox. I have this config:
http://pastebin.com/q6Yeqxv9
upstream connect {
server 127.0.0.1:8080;
}
server {
server_name admin.example.com www.admin.example.com;
listen 80;
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Company Wide Windows Auth with Chrome and Firefox
I know that we can allow Firefox to allow passing through of Windows credentials by editing the following about:config settings
--If using Kerberos--
network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris
network.negotiate-auth.delegation-uris
--If using…

Cavyn VonDeylen
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Locking Preferences in Mozilla
For security reasons, we need to "lock" some of the preferences in Mozilla Firefox. We are running Windows XP and the latest version of Mozilla version 14.0.1. In particular some of the security preferences such as Security.ask_for_password. If…

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IE8 vs Firefox 4 with regards to central management and updating
For an organization still using XP, and that plans to continue using XP for at least another year, do you think it would be better to switch to Firefox 4 or continue to use IE8? Is Firefox configurable via GP? Patchable via WSUS or Local Update…

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Opening RDP Files with browser
In my organization, we are planning to make RDP files available via web browser. The hope is that users can just point their browsers to one or the other RDP file and have the remote desktop client launched automatically by the browser.
What I'm…
Moula
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Cannot add a self signed certificate in Firefox
I need to set up an IIS webserver that will be accessed by a small, finite number of users. I was considering using a self-signed certificate only, and manually installing it on the user's systems.
So I generated the certificate with IIS tools,…

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nginx redirect that forces update of URL in the browser
I have a very basic nginx setup that redirects www.example.com to example.com, following the best practice. It works, and in the Tor Firefox browser, going to http://www.idorecall.com/blog indeed updates the URL in the address bar to…

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