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Zero click automatic login on page load

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Hi,

I am running Firefox to power a web kiosk displaying statistical dashboards (Iceweasel 31.2 under Raspbian).

The system should require no interaction at all to start up, and I have achieved this by setting up 3 tabs as the home page and starting Firefox on boot in full screen mode. There is one add-on called Tab Rotator which automatically rotates through tabs to make a kind of slide show.

My problem is that many of these dashboards require login to access them. Firefox stores the passwords, but somebody still has to plug in a mouse and click the login button once on each tab to get the actual pages to load. Is there any add-on which can automatically log in to web pages, to make it a completely hands-free solution? I have tried Secure Login and AutoAuth without much luck. Can something like this be scripted?

Thanks!

Hi, I am running Firefox to power a web kiosk displaying statistical dashboards (Iceweasel 31.2 under Raspbian). The system should require no interaction at all to start up, and I have achieved this by setting up 3 tabs as the home page and starting Firefox on boot in full screen mode. There is one add-on called Tab Rotator which automatically rotates through tabs to make a kind of slide show. My problem is that many of these dashboards require login to access them. Firefox stores the passwords, but somebody still has to plug in a mouse and click the login button once on each tab to get the actual pages to load. Is there any add-on which can automatically log in to web pages, to make it a completely hands-free solution? I have tried Secure Login and AutoAuth without much luck. Can something like this be scripted? Thanks!

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the-edmeister
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Isn't there a support forum for for Iceweasel? That's a 3rd party application, which might be built on Firefox but it isn't supported by Mozilla.

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Hi the-edmeister,

I appreciate that I may have inserted myself into a religious war here :P I was unable to find trafficked Iceweasel forums, and given that my question is clearly not related to an Iceweasel-specific bug, error or feature, but rather a question regarding a specific use case which, if answered, stands to benefit the broader Firefox community as well. My options are limited by the hardware (Raspberry Pi) and OS (Raspbian, based on Debian, hence the Iceweasel dependency), and I know that the plugin architecture in Firefox and Iceweasel is identical. I was looking for plugin recommendations or maybe some ideas of how to script such a function.

I'm happy to change my question to "how do I install Firefox on Raspbian", add repositories and whatever and then come back and ask about the kiosk login problem again, but we both know the question will be identical because (at least with respect to my problem) the products are functionally identical.

Thanks for your help!

cor-el
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Maybe this extension helps.