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Visual Studio Browser Link not working in Firefox

I'm using Visual Studio 2015 and Browser Link doesn't work with Firefox. IE and Chrome work perfectly with Browser Link.

Just got a new machine, but that didn't help either.

I tried the prerequisites mentioned in the browserlink dashboard (for static files, enable debugging) and I use IIS express, so .NET 4.0 is there.

Are there any more settings needed in Firefox?

In the network view, I just don't receive a response from the server, 0 bytes transferred.

Network trace: enter image description here

Solution

  • Found it, the main website was running on 44300, browserlink seems to run on 44399 (although that port isn't visible in IIS express)

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    Browse to https://localhost:44399 gave me the Firefox "This Connection is Untrusted" screen, where I needed to trust("confirm security exception") the self signed IIS certificate (just like what I had done on the https://localhost:44300 site)

    So it seems Firefox remembers trusted certificates per port number, not per DNS/IP/Name like IE and Chrome seem to do.

    Now the browserlink is working and downloading the files.