Since a lot of people (including me) are upgrading to Firefox 3.0, I thought I'd share a quick tip that I rediscovered on Patrick Cauldwell's Blog. If you use Firefox (any version), it can drive you crazy trying to access internal network sites (specifically SharePoint sites in my case). I end up having to log in every time I want to approve blog comments, access our internal project sites, etc. I found this fix to enable NTLM so that Firefox will authenticate automatically like IE does.
- Open Firefox
- Type about:config in the address bar
- Type network.automatic in the Filter bar
- Right click network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris and click Modify
- Enter only the names of your internal servers in a comma-delimited list. For example: [server1],[server2] and click okay.
- Restart Firefox
You should be able to access all of your internal sites on the servers you entered through Firefox now without entering your name and password repeatedly.