Fighting Security Certificates in Firefox
October 4, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
I’ve been fighting with security certificates all day today with my browser, Mozilla Firefox, and it’s driving me crazy. Before today I had an ongoing problem with the Razorplanet domain hosting.
I eventually decided to try and delete all the certificates on my system first. I thought this might cause everything to refresh and as I hit more sites that required a certificate I would approve each request one at a time and see if I could track down the issue.
I keep approving them for sites I trust but they continue to show-up and annoy me.
My overall desire would be to not completely disable the functionality as this website provides instructions to do.
I’m wondering if there’s some kind of additional service that I can bounce these things off of in the future? Yet when I think of that, I think that is the purpose of my browser knowing what to do and verify these certificates in the first place.
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions on what I need to do to resolve these issues?
(Note: In the time it’s taken me to write this post I’ve been interrupted 9 times with a certificate warning)
Image: Mozilla Firefox Security Alert windows
Did you delete all of the root CA’s? If so, I assume that will cause more problems than good. You want want to see if you can re-download all root CA’s.
It looks like this URL might have info on that:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/included/
I reinstalled Firefox over my existing install and it appears to have reloaded all the root certificates. I’m still getting the same errors though. This is really annoying. Do you have any good ideas?
no real good ideas off the top of my head… do you have any other user profiles on that computer? if so, does it happen for them? could be issues in your FF profile somehow