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Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite.

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How to make Firefox trust system CA certificates?

Our network admin recently enabled HTTPS inspection on our firewall/router. For IE users this is fine because the certs have all been distributed via Active Directory for domain-joined machines. However, we have a number of Firefox users that are…
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Setting Access-Control-Allow-Origin on Cloudfront

I am having problems serving static assets to Firefox using AWS Cloudfront. Chrome works perfect, but Firefox is returning a CORS error. If I execute curl , I get: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/x-font-opentype Content-Length:…
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How can I run Firefox on CentOS with no display?

I'm trying to run Firefox GUI browser on headless CentOS server in order to perform some web testing. I don't need to see the graphical output, because i use Selenium server API to control browser's input and inspect the output. The setup was…
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Is there a way for administrators to disable users from installing Firefox extensions?

Is there a way to disable the installation of Firefox extensions by non-admin users?
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What features would you add to Firefox to get it into the enterprise?

Firefox adoption in the home/personal user base seems to be growing fine, but adoption in the enterprise is not going anywhere quickly. My view on this is because SysAdmins are not promoting it within the organisations because Internet Explorer has…
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Setting default nice value for a program on linux

Strange as it seems, I can't find information how I can set a default nice value for a program (not for a user or a group!). I would like to start all chrome and firefox instances with a nice value of 10. What would be the most appropriate solution?
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Using Firefox in Windows Domain Environment?

Is anyone successfully using Firefox 3 in a Windows domain? By "successfully" I mean deploying via AD, configuring via GPO (especially setting network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris), default plugins, and somehow managing updates. I'm aware of…
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Firefox dynamic default preference configuration

My users are all on NFS home directories and with hundreds of users all using Firefox it generates a bit of traffic reading/writing to the disk cache. As a result, I'd like to move the default Firefox disk cache over to a local file system just to…
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As a system administrator, what Firefox plugin helps you do your job?

I know that there are several Firefox plugins that are invaluable for development. What plugins exist that are useful for system administration, monitoring, and the like? What plugins make your day-to-day job as a system or network administrator…
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Most efficient way to handle Firefox updates in computer labs with DeepFreeze?

I will soon be taking over responsibility for managing the software on all student computer lab machines at the university where I work. Firefox updates have tended to prove particularly irritating since it presents a tab with information about the…
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Free, web based alternative to Visio?

I have used Visio to map out my network structure, and have used the export function to create an HTML page that is searchable by IP, hostname etc. This is a really nice tool and I use it often. However, I would like for users who do not use…
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Deploy internal CA to linux clients

I have a large number of workstations that run RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. I'd like to deploy our new internal CA (Active Directory) to these machines. I can manually import the certificate into Firefox 10 without any issues, but I can't seem…
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Is there a way to access a specific server with the hostname in a round-robin setup?

I have a cluster of Apache webservers using round-robin for primitive load balancing. Is there a way to have firefox or chrome request that server name from a specific IP? If you just enter the http://1.2.3.4 , it doesn't get the ServerName, and if…
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SELinux: cannot confine Firefox process to mozilla_t domain

My goal is to execute Firefox in the mozilla_t domain instead of unconfined_t. The machine runs Fedora 20 with SELinux in enforcing mode. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get this right. No matter what I do, the process is always executed in the…
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How do I enable XRandR in Xvfb or disable it in firefox when running firefox headless?

I am trying to start firefox headless. The following is the beginning of the shell script that starts it: #!/bin/sh Xvfb :99 >/dev/null 2>&1 & XVFB=$! sleep 3 firefox --display=:99 >/dev/null 2>&1 & FIREFOX=$! When this script is run, the…
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