Just for confirmation:

Is Mozilla point to implement MSCAPI access trough a PKCS#11 module?
(http://mxr.mozilla.org/security/source/security/nss/lib/ckfw/capi/)

or

Is mozilla point to integrate with MSCAPI (transparently)?

Just to know which answer give next time this topic raises.

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 12:54 AM,  <cpmf2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 9:17:12 AM UTC-8, 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 would be very much in favor of adding this feature. We are getting ready to 
> remove Firefox and restrict its use across our 5000 PCs because it is such a 
> righteous PITA to add our internal CA certificates to Firefox remotely and we 
> don't want to deal with the flood of inevitable user calls "I don't know what 
> to choose, this security certificate stuff scares me." "Why am I getting 
> prompted for internal websites?" "Don't you IT guys know how to do certs?" 
> "Do I have to accept it, or do I install it?"
>
> I read the articles for certutil and I have to ask, "what idiot came up with 
> that as the only method???" Seriously, not being able to do it easily through 
> Group Policy or some other centralized method is a GIGANTIC FAIL. If you want 
> enterprises to take you seriously, take us and our needs seriously. Otherwise 
> whatever point Mozilla is trying to make is being lost and you will never be 
> installed again in our shop.
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