SharePoint and Firefox

For those of you that prefer Firefox over IE, here’s a little gem to ease the troubles you undoubtedly have with SharePoint:

You can enable NTLM credential pass-through by doing the following:

  1. Type about:config into your address bar.
  2. Find the preference labeled network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris.
  3. Add the URL of your SharePoint site as a value for this preference.

Voilà!  Now your SharePoint site is a “trusted site” in Firefox.

Firefox 3 and Java

I prefer Firefox over IE.  I don’t know why, but I can’t stand IE.  I don’t think it’s the speed (I don’t know that I’ve noticed a difference).  I’m not sure what it is.

Anyway, since I’ve upgraded to Firefox 3, Java has been crashing everytime I try to load a Java applet.  I found a bulletin board that suggested I install the Java 6 Update 10 Beta.  This seems to have worked.  A link to Update 10 is below:

https://jdk6.dev.java.net/6u10ea.html#Download

I’ve also posted my error that Windows provided for posterity (and in case someone is having the same issue and is Googling):

Problem signature
Problem Event Name:    APPCRASH
Application Name:    firefox.exe
Application Version:    1.9.0.3071
Application Timestamp:    483ebafb
Fault Module Name:    kernel32.dll
Fault Module Version:    6.0.6001.18000
Fault Module Timestamp:    4791a81d
Exception Code:    40010006
Exception Offset:    0002f35f
OS Version:    6.0.6001.2.1.0.274.10
Locale ID:    1033
Additional Information 1:    ce68
Additional Information 2:    d49ae2ad476857f1eb438569b24234ae
Additional Information 3:    7187
Additional Information 4:    70fa7155f8359f25ba31b30cbc19a21c