On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 11:17:12 AM UTC-6, joshu...@gmail.com wrote: > I know that there are probably well thought out reasons that this isn't a > features already...BUT! Lot's of US Government users can't use Firefox > because it doesn't use the Windows certificate store. > > > > Would anyone be totally opposed to adding this feature and having it enabled > via group policy? That would allow some IT shops to roll it out with their > preferred smart card middleware...like ActivClient. > > > > Thoughts?
I'm in the same boat here working in a government environment and, though Firefox is my preferred browser, it is no longer usable for me. We put out our own certificates which are populated in the local cert store. That means that every browser will find them except Firefox and importing certs from the local store into Firefox's is too much for us to do on a large scale and even though Firefox usually asks for approval of an unknown cert when going to a page there have been times where it doesn't and I had to uninstall and reinstall the browser to get it to work. Using CACs is another issue though I was able to find a pluggin created by DISA at http://www.forge.mil/Resources-Firefox.html that allows Firefox to read them. There really should be a setting for Firefox to use the local store as an option or Firefox will rapidly fall into the realm of obsolescence when it comes to government and enterprise environments. In the mean time I am obligated to use Chrome. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
