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tommy45
(knowledge is power) Wed 06-Feb-13 00:53:11

Firefox won't connect to many HTTPS web pages/sites

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This problem i'm having only started yesterday were Firefox just will not connect to various web sites that use HTTPS yesterday i was using 18.1 today updated to 18.2 still get the same issue here's a screenshot of the error message
Error message in firefox
It's seems to be affecting all HTTPS pages , is anyone else seeing similar issues with firefox ? BTW all the sites are accessable using IE7

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1109135337.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1088567519.png
http://www.pingtest.net/result/29483331.png
http://speed.io/pics/4840/4260/speed.io.png

Edited by tommy45 (Wed 06-Feb-13 00:53:49)

Chrysalis
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Wed 06-Feb-13 08:24:52

Re: Firefox won't connect to many HTTPS web pages/sites

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well I cant find on google a changelog for this new firefox and only knew about it after reading your post.

seems mozilla dont respect the importance of publishing changes anymore.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/18.2/releasenotes/

you should have gave a url that fails to test on.

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Edited by Chrysalis (Wed 06-Feb-13 08:25:22)

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(deleted) Wed 06-Feb-13 09:54:45

Re: Firefox won't connect to many HTTPS web pages/sites

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I was using FF 18.0.1 and have just updated to 18.0.2 and can still acess all my banking https websites with no problems.

Chrysalis
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Wed 06-Feb-13 14:54:51

Re: Firefox won't connect to many HTTPS web pages/sites

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having been using 18.2 all day today I concur seems fine here for https.

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(deleted) Wed 06-Feb-13 15:15:44

Re: Firefox won't connect to many HTTPS web pages/sites

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I agree - I am having no https problems with Firefox 18.0.2 (note: it's not 18.2).

I have seen the error reported earlier in the thread with earlier versions of Firefox. I found that waiting a second and pushing F5 to refresh made the problem go away.

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(deleted) Wed 06-Feb-13 17:37:58

Re: Firefox won't connect to many HTTPS web pages/sites

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I'm having no problems logging into my online NatWest A/C, with Firefox 10.0.2.

tommy45
(knowledge is power) Wed 06-Feb-13 18:38:39

Re: Firefox won't connect to many HTTPS web pages/sites

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I figured out the reason for it, wasn't firefox, but my AV ESET SS V6 it scans HTTPS and SSL certs, Firefox loads secure pages fine if i exclude it from SSL scanning, or exclude the cert from being scanned,
Version 5 has the same issue when using XPSP3 but would work on win7 sp1 ? But SSL scanning has worked without issue untill the other day, looks like they have broken it with an update

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1109135337.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1088567519.png
http://www.pingtest.net/result/29483331.png
http://speed.io/pics/4840/4260/speed.io.png

Edited by tommy45 (Wed 06-Feb-13 18:40:03)

Apprentice
(knowledge is power) Wed 06-Feb-13 18:46:52

Re: Firefox won't connect to many HTTPS web pages/sites

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looks like they have broken it with an update

They're not the only ones causing issues laugh

Alastair

omadasafisho

Chrysalis
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Thu 07-Feb-13 01:22:43

Re: Firefox won't connect to many HTTPS web pages/sites

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ok yeah and here we are then some release notes.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/18.0.2/releasen...

18.0.1 had some http proxy changes (tommy using proxy?), nothing in 18.0.2 that should have affected https at all.

Disable insecure content loading on HTTPS pages through an about:config pref

There is this but I think this was in 18.0.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62178

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Edited by Chrysalis (Thu 07-Feb-13 01:24:40)

tommy45
(knowledge is power) Thu 07-Feb-13 04:21:03

Re: Firefox won't connect to many HTTPS web pages/sites

[re: Chrysalis] [link to this post]

Not using a proxy,HTTPS web pages are once again loading normally, but no longer being scanned by eset smart security , somehow eset broke what they had frecently fixed via an update unless it's a bug,

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1109135337.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1088567519.png
http://www.pingtest.net/result/29483331.png
http://speed.io/pics/4840/4260/speed.io.png

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