windows authenticated website prompt for firefox but doesn't for internet explorer

Question

i added windows authentication on my website to track user names. For IE it works fine and is seemsless but it prompts for windows login for user using firefox. any ideas?

Answer 1

Windows authentication does not work for Firefox out of the box. You will need to do some additional steps. I'm not sure of the particulars as to how it happens, but your domain credentials are somehow given to the web server using IE.