I recently installed VMware server 2.0.1 on a RHEL5.3 host and failed to get a web login prompt from a windows xp host using firefox 3.0.8 (https://rhel5.mydomain.com:8333/ui/) . Imagine my surprise when I switched to IE 7.0.5730.11 and the login prompt appeared.
It is definitely a problem with the comination of a windows hosted firefox 3.0.8 and VMware 2.0.1 server. The same version of firefox on a linux host works connecting to the same vmware server, and the same firefox on xp host connects fine to a VMware server 2.0.0 (albeit running on an XP host).
Weird - I never had to fall back to IE for anything before.
When opening http://rhel5.mydomain.com:8222 on firefox, the browser gets redirected to https://rhel5.mydomain.com:8333:/ui as usual, but there is none of the usual security certificate popups from firefox. The window title forever says "Loading..." and you are left staring at a blank page when you expect to see the login page.
Are other people seeing the same problem?