Firefox 6 is Now the Current Version!
Sep 1, 2011 | 10:52 am
#32
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Why is Firefox acting weird all of a sudden?
And just to pre-empt the suggestion, yes, I have upgraded to 6.0.1.
In the last 2-3 days I have been getting "This Connection is Untrusted" screens when trying to navigate to a number of https sites, including Google+, Vanguard, and others. I try to confirm the security certificates and add exceptions, but even after I do that, the sites do not load properly (for instance, no pictures or images).
The problem is not occurring when I use IE on the same computers to navigate to the same sites.
Any ideas as to what's going on and how to fix it?
In the last 2-3 days I have been getting "This Connection is Untrusted" screens when trying to navigate to a number of https sites, including Google+, Vanguard, and others. I try to confirm the security certificates and add exceptions, but even after I do that, the sites do not load properly (for instance, no pictures or images).
The problem is not occurring when I use IE on the same computers to navigate to the same sites.
Any ideas as to what's going on and how to fix it?
Sep 1, 2011 | 4:37 pm
#33
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And just to pre-empt the suggestion, yes, I have upgraded to 6.0.1.
In the last 2-3 days I have been getting "This Connection is Untrusted" screens when trying to navigate to a number of https sites, including Google+, Vanguard, and others. I try to confirm the security certificates and add exceptions, but even after I do that, the sites do not load properly (for instance, no pictures or images).
The problem is not occurring when I use IE on the same computers to navigate to the same sites.
Any ideas as to what's going on and how to fix it?
In the last 2-3 days I have been getting "This Connection is Untrusted" screens when trying to navigate to a number of https sites, including Google+, Vanguard, and others. I try to confirm the security certificates and add exceptions, but even after I do that, the sites do not load properly (for instance, no pictures or images).
The problem is not occurring when I use IE on the same computers to navigate to the same sites.
Any ideas as to what's going on and how to fix it?
The backstory on this:
Someone--presumed to be Iran but this isn't proven--hacked the Dutch certificate authority www.diginotar.com and issued themselves a bunch of bogus certificates. This is a pretty severe breach in the first place and DigiNotar hasn't exactly been doing a good job of dealing with it, either.
The digital certificates are all about trust and DigiNotar has shown that it's not trustworthy.
Mozilla responded by removing the DigiNotar root certificate from the latest update. This will cause certificate errors for any site that used a DigiNotar-signed certificate. Since this is a deliberate decision and not a bug don't expect it to change unless the situation changes.
I believe Chrome has done the same thing.
Sep 2, 2011 | 6:01 am
#35
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Mozilla responded by removing the DigiNotar root certificate from the latest update. This will cause certificate errors for any site that used a DigiNotar-signed certificate. Since this is a deliberate decision and not a bug don't expect it to change unless the situation changes.
Sep 2, 2011 | 11:30 am
#36
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Thanks for that explanation. Mozilla had a recommendation to "delete/distrust" DigiNotar's certificate, and I did that yesterday before I posted here, but it didn't work. I guess DigiNotar has to do something drastic, or every site using one of their certificates has to move to someone else's. (If that's the way these things work. I have absolutely no idea how this stuff happens!). Sites affected include Vanguard, Google, and even Mozilla itself, amazingly.
As for Vanguard--it works fine for me.
Sep 2, 2011 | 8:39 pm
#37
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It's right there in the release notes for 6.0.1. (use it? I have no idea if Mozilla actually uses certificates published by them or not; the change is that the web browser won't accept it and trust those certificates anymore.)
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox.../releasenotes/
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox.../releasenotes/
What’s New in Firefox
The latest version of Firefox has the following changes:
Revoked the root certificate for DigiNotar due to fraudulent SSL certificate issuance (see bug 682927 and the security advisory)
You may also be interested in the list of changes in the previous version.
The latest version of Firefox has the following changes:
Revoked the root certificate for DigiNotar due to fraudulent SSL certificate issuance (see bug 682927 and the security advisory)
You may also be interested in the list of changes in the previous version.
Sep 3, 2011 | 9:52 am
#40
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It's right there in the release notes for 6.0.1. (use it? I have no idea if Mozilla actually uses certificates published by them or not; the change is that the web browser won't accept it and trust those certificates anymore.)
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox.../releasenotes/
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox.../releasenotes/
