Firefox – Windows Domain Authentication with Firefox

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We have many internal web sites on our domain:

  • a.blah.com
  • b.bhah.com
  • c.blah.com

IE authenticates automatically using the currently signed in domain user but fire fox pops up a login box, sometimes multiple times per page load if assets on different internal sites are referenced. I've tried modifying about:config as suggest by this post but that didn't resolve the issue.

Does anyone have any other suggestions about how to get firefox to authenticate using the signed in domain user? I'm currently using the IETab firefox addon to load these internal pages using the IE engine but I'd prefer a simpler solution…

Best Answer

I think this will cover you:

http://markmonica.com/2007/11/20/firefox-and-integrated-windows-authentication/

How to configure Firefox

  1. Open Firefox
  2. In the address bar type: about:config
  3. Firefox3.x and later requires you to agree that you will proceed with caution.
  4. After the config page loads, in the filter box type: network.automatic
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