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Re:Chrome Overtakes Firefox Globally for First Time by andylei on Thursday December 01, 2011 @10:13AM (#3299978)
> OS certificate store and proxy configuration settings

these things are awesome! firefox just doesn't work with most sites on my company's intranet (particularly with authentication), but when i use chrome, everything just works.

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Re:Chrome Overtakes Firefox Globally for First Time by zobzu on Thursday December 01, 2011 @10:28AM (#3300030)
that sounds odd. details?
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Re:Chrome Overtakes Firefox Globally for First Time by justinschuh on Thursday December 01, 2011 @11:10AM (#3300189)
Just guessing here, but it's pretty common for enterprises to set up a lot of configuration via some sort of centralized policy mechanism. So, you'll have custom certs and a proxy PAC pushed at the system level via GPO or Puppet. If a browser (or any application) re-implements these features entirely, it won't pick up any of that context.
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