If you get the prompt ‘This network may have a captive portal warning’ when you access wireless internet for the first time, we recommend the following solution to fix the issue successfully ...

Open the Firefox browser and enter about:config in the address bar. Accept the terms and conditions. Search for the network.captive-portal-service.enabled setting. Double-click on it to make it true.

Android may soon open Captive Portals in an Android Custom Tab instead of a WebView, making it easier to access some public Wi-Fi networks.

If you find your iPhone or iPad will connect to the Wi-Fi but never opens the Captive Portal and doesn’t let you access the internet, try these four tips. Most of these apply to Mac as well.

Evil Wi-Fi captive portal could spoof Apple Pay to get users’ credit card data The iPhone's auto-connection to WiFi could be used to social engineer users.

The captive portal feature is currently available to every Fire TV device, stick or box, worldwide. For more information on how to get it, check out Amazon's software update page .