windows authenticated website prompt for firefox but doesn't for internet explorer

Question

i added windows authentication on my website to track user names. For IE it works fine and is seemsless but it prompts for windows login for user using firefox. any ideas?

Answer 1

Windows authentication does not work for Firefox out of the box. You will need to do some additional steps. I'm not sure of the particulars as to how it happens, but your domain credentials are somehow given to the web server using IE.

Answer 2

You have to add the hostname (URL) to the network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris setting within about:config in Firefox.

Answer 3

You'll need to enable NTLM authentication in Firefox. Instructions here.

1. Open Firefox and type “about:config” in the address bar. (without the quotes of course)
2. In the ‘Filter’ field type the following “network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris”
3. Double click the name of the preference that we just searched for
4. Enter the URLs of the sites you wish to pass NTLM auth info to in the form of: http://intranet.company.com,http://email.company.lan
5. Notice that you can use a comma separated list in this field.