How can I make firefox behave like IE on a windows domain when requesting user credentials

Question

With windows IE, I never have to input my domain credentials, it's able to just pass them along. Is there a way to do this for firefox so that whenever i try to access a site within the intranet that asks for credentials, I won;t get prompted?

Answer 1

Simple Answer. You can't. This is zoning facility because of IE's integration into the OS.

Correction apparantly this can be done as per this blog entry.

The setting is simple:

In the address bar in Firefox, type “about:config”
This will show all the settings for Firefox. 
In this list find this key “network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris.” 
This is a comma-delimited list of all host names that you 
want to use NTLM with.
Just enter your host names like this: 
“host1.mydomain.com, host2.mydomain.com”

Answer 2

Check out the IE Tab extension. It embeds the IE engine within a Firefox tab, and is frequently used to access corporate intranet sites that are often designed for IE only.

You can configure it to only load for certain sites, so that the normal Firefox engine will be used for all others except those.

Answer 3

Open firefox and enter following address: about:config

Add sites/domains that are trusted into a following params. You can add multiple items by using , as a separator.

• network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris
• network.negotiate-auth.delegation-uris
• network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris

Answer 4

Have you tried using IETab and having it activate on the sties in your domain?