29
Jun.
2005
Fixing the localhost authentication problem in FireFox
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for some time I had a strange problem; I could load sites from http://localhost in MSIE, but whenever I tried FireFox, it asked me for an user name and password. I've tried it all but I couldn't authenticate.
If you happen to have the same problem, here's a quick and simple workaround:
  1. In Firefox type about:config in the addressbar
  2. Find the preference named network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris
  3. Doubleclick and type localhost
  4. Enter and you're done

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Comments

107.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! This worked for me tonight.
by JamesN on 2012-04-05 20:36:04
106.
The above solution did not work for me as it had something got to do with proxy in my case. The following worked for me: Set proxy settings to automatic in firefox. Options>Advanced>Network> Settings>Auto detect proxy settings.
by abhishek on 2012-02-13 04:18:22
105.
thanx alot :) God bless u
by absda on 2011-10-02 23:40:03
104.
Thanks for this - its been troubling me for a while and I thought it was my setup rather than a quirk of netscape. Thanks again.
by Neil on 2011-08-16 11:11:11
103.
Thank you very much for this post. What a great help
by ban on 2011-01-04 12:42:45
102.
Thank you!!!!
by Thanh on 2010-12-14 17:00:48
101.
Thanks very much!
by norbert on 2010-12-14 07:50:05
100.
Thank you very much. I'm really stupid when test Report service SQL2008 in FireFox. I don't know where I configured wrong in the Reporting Service Configuration Manager - SQL2008. Configure step by step according to MSDN. Result is so that. Then, Install and Uninstall again and again. Checking Port in IIS, Firewall,...Result is so that. I lost a week to fix this problem. Today, I find your help and recognize that I'd never tried in IE. I load in IE successful. It's really stupid. Thank you very much!
by Bui The Anh on 2010-11-28 08:56:14
99.
Thanks!
by Ali on 2010-10-13 09:35:16
98.
That did it! Cheers mate!!
by hans on 2010-07-26 13:26:07