Starting with Firefox version 90, when you connect to a website that requests a client authentication certificate, Firefox will automatically query the operating system for such certificates and give you the option to use one of them.
This is sometimes called “mutual authentication”. Some websites (most commonly corporate authentication systems) request that the browser sends a certificate back to it as well, so that the website visitor can prove their identity to the website (similar to logging in with a username and password). When a web browser negotiates a secure connection with a website, the web server sends a certificate to the browser to prove its identity. This security and usability improvement has been available in Firefox since version 75, but previously end users had to manually enable it. Starting with version 90, Firefox will automatically find and offer to use client authentication certificates provided by the operating system on macOS and Windows.
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