Showing posts with label Firefox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Firefox. Show all posts

Friday, 6 March 2015

[Solved] Firefox asks intranet password

I have installed firefox and set it as my default browser. When my laptop is connected to my company LAN and when I happen to open an internal URL, firefox always prompts for password.

I did the following and now firefox does not ask for password.
  1. Open the firefox tab and type in the address bar - about:config
  2. Click on I'll be careful, I promise! button.
  3. Find network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris in the list
  4. Type the internal website URLs as a comma separated string and click OK

Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Open Mozilla Firefox 'Private Mode' permanently

I wanted to setup Mozilla Firefox to open in 'Private' mode always. It was a simple process to setup in Windows 8.0.
  1. Open the properties of Mozilla Firefox from the task bar
  2. In the 'Target' box, include an option -private

Sunday, 4 May 2014

Ubuntu - Google Hangout/Chat : A plugin is needed to display this content

Error
Chrome - No Plug-in available to display this content
Firefox - A plugin is needed to display this content

Got the error when trying to set the webcam settings in google chat. I got the error in Chrome and Firefox browsers in Ubuntu 12.04. I solved it by installing the icedtea plugin. sudo apt-get install icedtea-7-plugin

Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Setup Firefox in Ubuntu 12.04

It was surprising to know that there is no direct way to install firefox in Ubuntu. No worries, I'm not a Windows user!
After I installed Ubuntu 12.04, I have installed firefox, in a not so direct way(double click a .deb, I meant). I'm listing below the steps to get the latest build of firefox setup.
  1. Download firefox from www.mozilla.org
  2. Extract the firefox-_____.tar.bz2 to a directory firefox
  3. Run the following command in terminal, to move the directory into /opt/
    sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox
  4. Using the following command, take a backup of the default firefox symbolic link in /usr/bin/ directory
    sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox_backup
  5. Create a symbolic link in the /usr/bin/ directory that points to the newly downloaded firefox binary. Use the following command
    sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

The firefox browser is installed on the machine now. We need to do the sync setup, plugins setup for the firefox to be fully functional.
  1. Open Tools > Setup Sync and follow instructions to complete the sync setup
  2. Install Adobe Flash Player plugin. This is needed to play video files in youtube. Use the following command to install
    sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
  3. After that install Adobe Flash Player, visit the url www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ to ensure that the plugin is installed