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    Can't Connect To WebGUI Via Firefox (Works In IE)

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      Sime208
      last edited by

      Hi all,

      I'm having a problem connecting to the WebGUI's of various pfSense's through Firefox.

      It's not a rules thing - I can connect via IE on the same PC. When I've had the issue before, a reset of my Firefox profile has sorted it…. for a period!

      I'm accessing all the pfSense's using the URL - https://ip:11443 - which as I say, works on IE.

      On Firefox, I get either a couple of minutes wait before getting to the login screen, or it'll time out saying "the connection was reset".

      It's not a mega-issue as I could use IE, but it's annoying - and repeatedly resetting Firefox profile is a pain as there's a bunch of other stuff I have to set back up too.

      Currently Firefox has NO addons installed. I've also tried deleting the manually added certificates for all the pfSenses.

      Any ideas?! And thanks in advance :-)

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        muswellhillbilly
        last edited by

        Sounds  like Firefox might be proxied. Check the proxy settings and see if it's pointing to a proxy server - if it is and IE isn't, then that may be your answer.

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          donpfsform
          last edited by

          Do you have LastPass installed?

          I've found I cannot connect at all (multiple OSes, pfSense boxes, versions, etc) if it is installed.  Firefox without LastPass works perfectly so I just keep a Firefox profile that doesn't have it installed.

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          • johnpozJ
            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
            last edited by

            What??  Sounds more like you have last pass messed up sending the wrong creds to me.. I have no issue access pfsense web gui with firefox 37.0.2 with lastpass as well - its what logs me in..

            Last pass is NOT the problem - if you think it is just disable it so it doesn't send login creds, etc.

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            • jimpJ
              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
              last edited by

              If the certificates were generated before 2.2, you're probably hitting a Firefox bug with how it handled our old default certs.

              https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1056341

              You can manually clear out any of the old/bad certs, it might let you into ~8 of them before it craps out again.

              If you are on 2.2 on these boxes, go to a shell and run:

              pfSsh.php playback generateguicert
              

              And then it'll make a new cert that will make Firefox happy.

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                camaleongdl
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                jimp, that worked for me… thanks

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