01.17.06
Getting Firefox to Play Nice with NTLM
If you like using Firefox and, say, your company intranet or perhaps (shudder) SharePoint at the same time, the annoying thing is having to login every bloody time you go to a new page.
One of my intepid coworkers dug up this simple solution from Patrick Cauldwell’s Blog:
It’s not at all obvious how to make it work, and it took me a few tries. You have to go to your Firefox address bar and type
about:config. This will bring up the internal config editor, which allows you to set all kinds of properties that influence Firefox’s behavior. Look for the key called network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris. Set that key’s value [Note: you have to double-click it] to a comma separated list of servers you want NTLM auth for. So if your internal SharePoint sites are on servers called Larry and Mo, use “larry,mo”. You can also add the same value to the key network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris. It’s unclear to me if that second one is required, but I set it, and everything works. Now SharePoint works like a champ, and authenticates automatically.
Fwiw, for my company’s intranet, I only had to set the first key. But I don’t play with SharePoint unless I really have to.
