Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite.
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Company Wide Windows Auth with Chrome and Firefox
I know that we can allow Firefox to allow passing through of Windows credentials by editing the following about:config settings
network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris
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firefox stopped with error, Cannot find a safe socket path in '' [closed]
My firefox stopped working recently. The error it throws out is ** ERROR **: Cannot find a safe socket path in ''
Searching for the error, almost all others are getting the same error but on path ...
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Can download with Firefox, can't download with curl (NTLM authentication)
I want to download a file from a SharePoint server (url).
I manage to download it using Firefox.
I can't manage to download it using curl.
Sounds surprising, but the same URL works on Firefox, fails ...
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Disable globally new built-in PDF viewer [closed]
I'd like to deploy Firefox 19 on my network but the new built-in PDF viewer is very annoying and I'd like to keep Acrobat Reader as default.
I can change parameters in about:config but how can I do ...
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Displaying pdf in IE10 using pdf.js
Adobe Reader plugin for IE and other browsers has a long history of vulnerabilities. Mozilla's pdf.js provides an open source alternative to adobe. How do I configure IE10 to use pdf.js for viewing ...
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Hosts file doesn't work with .com host names
My /etc/hosts file is configured as following:
127.0.0.1 localhost mysitea.local mysiteb.com www.mysiteb.com www.mysitea.local
And I have my Apache virtual hosts setup accordingly:
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WampServer - http://localhost is not loading in Chrome or Firefox, it loads in IE
I'm running into problems with a fresh install of WampServer 2.2e.
The configuration is the default/out-of-the-box one, so the Apache server is listening on port 80. I don't have Skype or something ...
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Completely disable “this plugin is vulnerable and should be updated” page in Firefox 18.0.2
I'm running Firefox 18.0.2 on some thin clients with Windows 7 Embedded - basically locked down web kiosks for customer use.
The clients are write protected and all updates are disabled, but once ...
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Server-side print to PDF of HTML file in /tmp?
I'm working on a project where we need consistent printing of certain pages, and PDFs are made for that. The customers also like to have some local copies, so this would be a two-fold win. Things get ...
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F5 Big-IP no longer works for Linux clients [closed]
The company I work for uses F5 BIG-IP as a VPN.
I use a Linux workstation so I used a Firefox based client to connect to the VPN. Everything was fine until site support rolled out an upgrade to the ...
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Most efficient way to handle Firefox updates in computer labs with DeepFreeze?
I will soon be taking over responsibility for managing the software on all student computer lab machines at the university where I work. Firefox updates have tended to prove particularly irritating ...
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Java Applet Does Not Work If Firefox Is Launched From a Java Program in Kubuntu 12.10 x64
I need help.
A Java program launches Firefox and a URL (let's call this URL as http://mywebsite.com). www.mywebsite.com has an applet. The strange thing is that the applet doesn't work at all. ...
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S3 CORS through CloudFront not working in Firefox
I am using S3 CORS for serving fonts. If S3 domain name is used for serving fonts, it works in Firefox, but when CloudFront is used, it doesn't. Works with Google Chrome.
My CORS configuration on S3
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Why might a standard browser send hundreds of concurrent requests?
One of my organization's web servers (Ubuntu with Apache & PHP) recently got knocked out of service by a sudden burst of 400ish repeated requests in 20 seconds from a logged-in user. It looks ...
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Force proxy settings (Solaris\Linux)
I have tried the following from the command line in solaris:
DATE TIME user@host> bash
bash-3.2$ export http_proxy=http://localhost:8080/
bash-3.2$ echo $http_proxy
http://localhost:8080/
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How do I enable XRandR in Xvfb or disable it in firefox when running firefox headless?
I am trying to start firefox headless. The following is the beginning of the shell script that starts it:
#!/bin/sh
Xvfb :99 >/dev/null 2>&1 &
XVFB=$!
sleep 3
firefox --display=:99 ...
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SSRS ReportServer on localhost does not open on IE but opens on Firefox
I have two development virtual machines with Windows 7 32 bit on Virtual Box, with SQL Reporting Services (SQL 2012 Express) and IIS 7 installed. I am using some custom deployment scripts for rs.exe ...
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Remote home, two desktops at the same time: firefox and thunderbird can't be run on both
We're using Ubuntu desktops with remote homes mounted via NFS. It's working ok overall, but we're facing a problem now with thunderbird and firefox.
Some users have two identical desktops running at ...
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Firefox proxy authentication with Kerberos: one service ticket per connection (Linux)
I am trying to enable proxy authentication via Kerberos for Firefox. The setup is:
Active Directory domain (for LDAP and Kerberos; this works and I can log in the computer and get Kerberos tickets ...
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Enforce “click-to-play” in Chrome and Firefox domain-wide?
Is there any way to enforce the newish "Click-to-Play" setting for plugins (Java especially) for a domain of Windows systems?
I know I can go around to each of my 100 different users and set their ...
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Exception while running Selenium on AWS EC2 instance
I am facing this exception when I run a Selenium test case using the Firefox driver on the AWS EC2 instance which is the headless server. I installed Firefox and all the necessary changes for it
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Server Connection Defaulting to HTTPS in Firefox
I recently added SSL to my server using a self-signed certificate. The goal was to access phpMyAdmin without sending my credentials over the Internet in plain text.
This works great for phpMyAdmin, ...
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Disable Full-Screen Browsing in Firefox - for eternity
We have moved from Internet Explorer (my internal codename Exploder) to Firefox within our company.
For some reason, with relative frequency, I get the very informative call from a user, "I can't see ...
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Locking Preferences in Mozilla
For security reasons, we need to "lock" some of the preferences in Mozilla Firefox. We are running Windows XP and the latest version of Mozilla version 14.0.1. In particular some of the security ...
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FirePHP on Apache2 cause 502 error
I've got a problem with FirePHP.
FirePHP doesn't work anymore on my Server (Debian 6 Squeeze with Apache2).
When I am loading my site in my Firefox with FirePHP enabled, I receive an 502 error and an ...
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Firefox automation script
Some terminals need to be able to automaticaly start Mozilla (or another browser if more convenient) and visit a prespecified page. How is it possible to write a script that runs localy and when ...
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Firefox ESR: Permissions
I have recently setup a development 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Host Server to test Firefox ESR 10.0.3. I can set the options to not check for updates and that works correctly. However a standard user ...
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Firefox not using Kerberos despite being configured to
I am deploying Linux/Firefox on a corporate Kerberos network.
I followed this Kerberos-on-Firefox procedure but still Firefox does not connect via the company's Kerberos.
I am using Firefox 3.0.18 ...
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Erratic localhost behaviour with Windows 7 and Firefox 13.0
I have MAMP running on my Windows 7 PC with PHP 5.4 support and it continually either times out, or redirects my browser to www.localhost.com when I try to access my htdocs. I've tried nearly ...
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Deploy internal CA to linux clients
I have a large number of workstations that run RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. I'd like to deploy our new internal CA (Active Directory) to these machines. I can manually import the certificate ...
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How to restrict access to firefox in Ubuntu 10.[04|10]
I have an Ubuntu desktop set up in a retail environment. I would like to restrict access to firefox. So that users must type in a password to run it. I tried changing permissions on the binary so that ...
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Running Selenium RC Headless via init script: Can not start firefox
I am trying to start selenium and the headless Xvfb X server using a init script and the daemon tool.
But when I start my environment using this method, Firefox fails to launch. It looks like it can ...
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Integrated Windows Authentication with Chrome and FireFox
I have a webapplication which uses claims based authentication. The STS is ADFS 2.0.
When I am in the intranet and use IE, IWA is used and no login dialog appears. When I am on the internet zone, the ...
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Deploy new homepage preferences
We have several hundred MacBooks on campus, all managed by us. We're hoping to find an easy(ish) way of setting the homepage across all of them, all at once. The catch is, there are a variety of ...
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Why firefox handle urlencode differently with apache mod-rewrite B flag?
Recently I have encontered a strange problem about urlencode, I happened to have a "+" in my both pathinfo and querystring parts of the url.
For exampele:
http://example.com/A + B?s=C + D
I use ...
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How can I run Firefox on CentOS with no display? [closed]
I'm trying to use Selenium Server to do some web testing.... if you're not familiar with Selenium, the way it works is that my web app (in this case, a PHP script) uses Selenium's excellent API, which ...
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How to associate a softphone with a phone url
I'm trying to get click to call to work using Qutecom for a softphone and a Greesemonkey script to turn phone numbers into clickable urls. Whenever I click on the phone number link I get an error ...
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firefoxadm 0.5.9.3 for firefox9 does not work
I know that firefoxadm works for old versions of Firefox but it does not for the latest versions. what are people using now, how do you configure for newer versions of firefox?
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Firefox does not load certificate chain
I'm running lighttpd/1.4.28 (ssl) on Debian Squeeze. I just created a http://startssl.com certificate, I runs fine at all of my Browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Opera), but my users are reporting ...
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Disable Certain Firefox Plugins System-wide by Default
I have firefox installed system-wide for all our users. Unfortunately the Adobe Reader Plug-in is rather flakey and doesn't work some of the time. As a result I want to disable the plug-in by ...
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Disable save password in Firefox by Group Policy?
Alright, so a huge security flaw is that Firefox saves passwords in plain text.
How can we disallow saving of passwords in Firefox the quickest way.
Is it possible by Group Policy or anything like ...
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I can't access a web page from a VPS server
I need to access a web page through my VPS using Firefox, but Firefox says "Unable to connect". And the problem is that this web page is located on the same provider's servers as my VPS.
If I try to ...
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Publish Bookmarks in FireFox with Active Directory (AD)
Issue: We have a number of bookmarks that we need to publish to our users computers that are bound to active directory. We can easily accomplish this with group policy for Internet Explorer. At the ...
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Firefox Doubt in LAN [closed]
Is there an option in fire fox to run it via LAN???
After connecting to other user by SSH,
and if type
firefox
on the command prompt,
will it pop up other user's fire fox window?
and I'm ...
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Custom Firefox Updates on a Private Network
We have a network where, due to a SaaS piece that is used to manage the school, we cannot allow Firefox to update until the SaaS piece notifies us that they support the newest version.
This mean ...
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sec_error_unknown_issuer but only with Firefox and IE6
I recently renewed the SSL certificate on my site and while initially it seemed that the certificated was installed correctly, I was shocked to discover hours ago that the HTTPS connection no longer ...
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Firefox dynamic default preference configuration
My users are all on NFS home directories and with hundreds of users all using firefox it generates a bit of traffic reading/writing to the disk cache. As a result, I'd like to move the default ...
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Squid Kerberos/LDAP Active Directory only works on IE not on Firefox and chrome
I've setup a proxy using squid, with kerberos/ldap as authentication.
I used this article as reference: ...
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HTTPS Site Accessed through IE but can not accessed through firefox
Recently upgraded Apache version to 2.2.19, have done configuration (https) as usual, while trying to access the applications through IE its working fine.
But while trying to access through Firefox, ...
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IE, FireFox LDAP issues
We have an intranet site, with no known updates pushed to the server over the weekend. This morning, when attempting to validate with LDAP credentials via single sign on in IE, we receive Access ...
