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Discussion Edit Article Translate Article Show Translations What Links Here Show History Customize this article Firefox Version 51 Version 50 Version 49 Version 48 Version 47 Version firefox 3 certificate error 46 Version 45 Version 44 Version 43 Version 42 Version 41 Version 40 firefox certificate expired Version 39 Version 38 Windows 8 Windows 7/Vista Windows XP Mac Linux Windows 10 Explore more topics Basic browsing Install firefox certificate error ssl and update Sync and save Chat and share Do more with apps Protect your privacy Manage preferences and add-ons Fix slowness, crashing, error messages and other problems Was this article helpful? Secure Website firefox invalid certificate Certificate Table of Contents1 Certificate and Certificate Hierarchy2 Certificate Contents3 View a Certificate4 Problematic Certificates5 Reporting Certificate Errors Certificate and Certificate Hierarchy A Secure Website Certificate helps Firefox determine whether the site you are visiting is actually the site that it claims to be. When you visit a website whose web address starts with https, your communication with the site is encrypted to help ensure your privacy.
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Before starting the encrypted communication, the website will present Firefox with a certificate to identify itself. An https web site is only secure to the extent that the web site is operated by someone in contact with the person who registered the domain name, and the communication between you and the website is encrypted to prevent eavesdropping. No other surety is implied. When you visit a secure website, Firefox will validate the website’s certificate by checking that the certificate that signed it is valid, and checking that the certificate that signed the parent certificate is valid and so forth up to a root certificate that is known to be valid. This chain of certificates is called the Certificate Hierarchy. Certificate Contents Secure Website Certificates contain the following information. Serial Number: Uniquely identifies the certificate. Subject: Identifies the certificate owner, such as the name of the organization owning the certificate. Issuer: Identifies the entity that issued the certificate. Subject Alt Name Extension: List of website addresses that the certificate can be used to identify. Signature: Data that verifies that the certificate came from the Issuer. Signature Algorithm: Algorithm used to create the Signature. Valid-From: The date the certificate is firs
was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help. Firefox reports a TLS error for a website that I trust, but provides no way to
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override the error message. 10 replies 14 have this problem 1315 views Last reply firefox certificate error this connection is untrusted by cor-el 10 months ago Bill Falls Posted 11/29/15, 1:32 PM For the last couple of months (late 2015) Firefox has firefox certificate error all sites returned a "secure connection failed" error when I try to access my account at a major health insurance provider. The site worked fine in Firefox for years and works fine with Microsoft Edge, but I https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/secure-website-certificate prefer to use Firefox. The "more info" link in the error message says the message indicates the site uses outdated TLS security and that I should contact the owners to tell them to update it. I tried that and failed; Blue Cross makes it even harder to "contact us" than Mozilla does. Why is there no "I trust this site - go there anyway" option? I'm experienced enough to make my https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1096538 own security decisions. For the last couple of months (late 2015) Firefox has returned a "secure connection failed" error when I try to access my account at a major health insurance provider. The site worked fine in Firefox for years and works fine with Microsoft Edge, but I prefer to use Firefox. The "more info" link in the error message says the message indicates the site uses outdated TLS security and that I should contact the owners to tell them to update it. I tried that and failed; Blue Cross makes it even harder to "contact us" than Mozilla does. Why is there no "I trust this site - go there anyway" option? I'm experienced enough to make my own security decisions. Chosen solution Thank you! The setting for security.tls.version.max was "user set" with a value of 1, and I reset it as you indicated. The value is now 3 and I was able to get to my Blue Cross account normally. I'm guessing that this problem dates to when I got my new computer and did a new installation of Firefox around August 10. Perhaps the TLS setting is the one that came with the download. BTW, I noticed BitDefender in the page info too. The error page didn't ide
thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help. Youtube (https)security certificate issue 25 replies 45 have this problem 17509 views Last reply by reyligh 2 years ago reyligh Posted https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1011790 7/22/14, 7:26 AM Hi I'm using latest firefox version with and recently I'm facing this strange issue ... everytime I try to visit youtube, to be specific, when not logged in on any google accounts http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.izua300/IZUHPINFO_FirefoxCertificateError.htm .. I can visit http://www.youtube.com but when I try to login, in which case it redirects to https:// and It shows the following error(check image url): https://imageshack.com/i/ezbe0c53j And if I try to add exception, it shows certificate error this screen(check image url): https://imageshack.com/i/hj41802cj (PS: Couldn't find upload option here so I had to use otherimage hosts) Also I tried changing windows time, adding auto time sync from windows site and also tried changing profile, disabling add on and testing and also tried removing cache/cookies from both google.com and youtube.com and so far nothing worked ... I can't seem to access youtube while logged in (https) Also its only youtube, no firefox certificate error other website shows this security certificate error! please provide a solution to this asap, thanks! Hi I'm using latest firefox version with and recently I'm facing this strange issue ... everytime I try to visit youtube, to be specific, when not logged in on any google accounts .. I can visit http://www.youtube.com but when I try to login, in which case it redirects to https:// and It shows the following error(check image url): https://imageshack.com/i/ezbe0c53j And if I try to add exception, it shows this screen(check image url): https://imageshack.com/i/hj41802cj (PS: Couldn't find upload option here so I had to use otherimage hosts) Also I tried changing windows time, adding auto time sync from windows site and also tried changing profile, disabling add on and testing and also tried removing cache/cookies from both google.com and youtube.com and so far nothing worked ... I can't seem to access youtube while logged in (https) Also its only youtube, no other website shows this security certificate error! please provide a solution to this asap, thanks! Chosen solution finally i figured out the issue, it seems like i had a IP redirection setup at windows>hosts file for youtube a while back when youtube was blocked by the gov here. so i removed it and everything seems to be wo