Firefox Security Certificates

Mercury305 · 08-24-2012, 09:22 AM

This may seem like a lame question. But I don't use firefox too often I have mostly used chrome. Firefox on Slackware seems to block a lot of my sites. I accidently clicked on get security certificate which it couldn't find and now a few of my most visited sites I can't go into. I tried conqueror as well still no luck. How can I enable these SC's? Or more rather how can I get rid of this security certificate screening all together.

mancha · 08-24-2012, 10:30 AM

If you access a site over tls/ssl with Firefox and the server's certificate is not signed by a cert in Mozilla's root store you will get a page telling you the connection is untrusted.

If you expand "I Understand the Risks", you can add either a temporary or a permanent exception.

To avoid these altogether you can use the MITM extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/mitm-me/). As the name suggests, it is perfect for people who want to get MitM attacked.

-mancha

Mercury305 · 08-24-2012, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by mancha+

If you access a site over tls/ssl with Firefox and the server's certificate is not signed by a cert in Mozilla's root store you will get a page telling you the connection is untrusted.

If you expand "I Understand the Risks", you can add either a temporary or a permanent exception.

To avoid these altogether you can use the MITM extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/mitm-me/). As the name suggests, it is perfect for people who want to get MitM attacked.

-mancha

Thanks I accidently denied it to a few pages. How can I re-enable them? I guess adding MITM would not be wise from what you say.