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For a while I’ve had trouble with Firefox when using a local IIS 5 install to test/debug an ASP.NET application. Some of the images and other resources weren’t loading, almost as if a limit had been hit. It would also show a login dialog box.

The solution is to go to about:config in Firefox and make sure that network.http.keep-alive is set to true.

The reason I’d set it to false in the past was so I could test a load balanced cluster.

Update: I’ve since found that the fix above doesn’t always work.

Something else which almost fixes this problem is to disable HTTP keep-alives via the site properties in IIS. Unfortunately this has the side effect of stopping debugging working in Visual Studio 2003.