Thursday, May 5, 2011

Fixing the localhost authentication problem in FireFox

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. It will show you a warning message ignore it and click on the button.
  3. Find the preference named network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris
  4. Doubleclick and type localhost
  5. Enter and you're done

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