#4 Install Burp’s CA Certificate in Firefox — Guide for Burp Suite

Piyush Kumawat (securitycipher)
3 min readDec 8, 2023

This article is a part of the Guide for Burp Suite series. Within the previous article, we see how you can Set-Up the FoxyProxy tool with the Firefox browser. Now we’ll move forward and see how we can install Burp’s CA (Certificate Authority) Certificate in the Firefox Browser. So Let’s Get Started.

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Install Burp’s CA Certificate

1. Run the burp suite and visit “http://burp" in your browser and click the “CA Certificate” button. After that download and save your Burp CA certificate in your system.

2. In this step, we will Import the downloaded certificate in the firefox browser. To do so, In Firefox open the Firefox Menu, Click on “Preferences”. Now search for “certificate” in the search bar and click on the “View Certificates” button.

3. Click on the “Import” button, select the Burp CA certificate file that you have previously downloaded on your system and click on the “Open” button.

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4. In the dialog box that pops up, check the box “Trust this CA to identify websites”, and click the “OK” button.

5. Now close all dialogs and restart Firefox. If everything has worked, you should now be able to visit any HTTPS URL via Burp without any security warnings.

Note that we have successfully intercepted the HTTPS traffic in the burp suite.

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