Firefox asks user name and password while accessing localhost

December 28, 2007 Internet Browsers, Mozilla, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting

This problem is been around for a while and there are very few references available in online regarding this issue.

This is mainly IIS problem with Windows Authentication. To solve this, please follow the below steps:

  1. Start -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Internet Information Services
  2. Expand your Computer -> Web Sites -> Default Web Site
  3. Right click Default Web Site and choose Properties
  4. Click on the Directory Security tab
  5. Click on the Edit button under “Anonymous access and authentication control” group
  6. Check the “Anonymous access” and verify that the user name is IUSR_<your-computer-name> and check the “Allow IIS to control password” checkbox.
  7. Check the “Integrated Windows authentication” checkbox
  8. Click OK and OK again and close the Internet Information Services window
  9. Open Firefox
  10. Type about:config in the Address bar
  11. Type network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris in the filter box
  12. Double click the resultant row and type localhost and press OK
  13. Now, close Firefox and reopen Firefox
  14. If you visit http://localhost now, there will not be any problems.

Hope that helps…

Let me know your comments and suggestions…

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Comments (16)

 

  1. damian says:
    January 27, 2008 at 8:26 am

    hey, thanks, this was the only thing that worked :D
    I was about to give up hope, well not really, but you know what i mean

    Reply
  2. Srinivasan A Paul Joseph says:
    January 27, 2008 at 8:56 am

    Hi Damian,

    Glad it helped you out.

    Thanks for visiting my blog…

    Reply
  3. damian says:
    January 27, 2008 at 9:56 pm

    hey, thanks, this was the only thing that worked :D
    I was about to give up hope, well not really, but you know what i mean

    Reply
  4. Srinivasan A Paul Joseph says:
    January 27, 2008 at 10:26 pm

    Hi Damian,

    Glad it helped you out.

    Thanks for visiting my blog…

    Reply
  5. Sath says:
    December 2, 2008 at 10:46 pm

    thanks buddy . it works . i m trying to configure a web server and was fed up with the issue .
    Thanks again

    Reply
  6. Sath says:
    December 2, 2008 at 10:46 pm

    thanks buddy . it works . i m trying to configure a web server and was fed up with the issue .
    Thanks again

    Reply
  7. sapauljoseph says:
    December 3, 2008 at 2:21 am

    Hi Sath,

    I'm glad it helped you out. Thanks for visiting my blog…

    Reply
  8. Srinivasan A Paul Joseph says:
    December 3, 2008 at 2:21 am

    Hi Sath,

    I'm glad it helped you out. Thanks for visiting my blog…

    Reply
  9. santy says:
    December 23, 2008 at 9:17 am

    u r a genius man

    Reply
  10. santy says:
    December 23, 2008 at 9:17 am

    u r a genius man

    Reply
  11. Srinivasan A Paul Joseph says:
    December 24, 2008 at 12:54 am

    Thanks a lot Santy…

    Reply
  12. Srinivasan A Paul Joseph says:
    December 24, 2008 at 12:54 am

    Thanks a lot Santy…

    Reply
  13. accurax says:
    January 5, 2009 at 7:28 am

    link doesnt work… please update :)

    Reply
  14. Srinivasan A Paul Joseph says:
    January 5, 2009 at 10:50 am

    Please use this link:

    http://blog.sripauljoseph.com/2007/12/28/firefo...

    Reply
  15. Nischint says:
    August 6, 2009 at 7:36 pm

    Thanks Sri You really are a genious. this fixed the problem for me.

    Reply
  16. Nischint says:
    August 6, 2009 at 7:37 pm

    Thanks Sri
    You really are a genious. this fixed the problem for me.

    Reply

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