SSW Rules to Better Firefox

Do you know how to use Windows Integrated Authentication in Firefox?

Internet Explorer has a great feature that you hardly notice. The Authentication credentials of the current user will be used by default.

Figure: Internet Explorer has the Integrated Authentication feature built in

In Firefox, if you sign in to an internal server like SharePoint or CRM, you will get an authentication dialog.

Even though you are already authenticated to the local domain.

Figure: We want to avoid authenticating using Firefox (so it works like IE)

The Solution:

1. Open Firefox
2. Go to "about:config"
3. Click "I'll be careful, I promise!"
4. Enter in the Filter box above: "network.automatic"
5. You see 2 records
6. Double-click the second one - It is the key called network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris
7. Enter the servers delimited by ",", e.g. "aphrodite, mermaid"
8. Close browser and test

Figure: Showed how to find “network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris” by using filter: “network.automatic”

More info on blog: http://www.cauldwell.net/patrick/blog/PermaLink,guid,c7f1e799-c4ae-4758-9de7-5c3e7a16f3da.aspx

Tip:
To test this without the Integrated Authentication enabled, you need to clear your session. You do this via
Tools | Clear private data | Authenticated Sessions

Figure: To test you will need to clear your "Authenticated Sessions" to completely logout from a site (SharePoint, CRM)