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Originally Posted by DTVuser2009
How about the expired certificate warning? i found no solution to that, and no option in Firefox. i just fell back to IE 6, back when it was still stable and not annoying and gave more options to turn things off. i really despise nagware.
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First I hate myriads of updates myself, so I am not an update fan boy.
But IE and Windows more often than not will delay a critical threat update until Update Tuesdays, once a month, while the threat is known to be very high. Sometimes yes, they have mid month updates but not often. They had one this month.
So the complaint against IE was you can go 3 weeks exposed, though the threat is defined at the MS web site, it's all over the internet, it's real, not some maybe I get it type attack, but you wait three weeks.
So Fx fixes threat ASAP. That can mean sometime there is an update a day for a few days, or one a week, etc. They update NOW, not when it's update time but right now, as soon as the patch is done and tested.
This alone is a HUGE part of why Firefox is safe browsing than IE.
If you are in the middle of something just hit later.
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Speaking of updates, they made getting past expired or otherwise security certificates much easier sometime in the 3.5.x updates.
I am currently on 3.5.2 in Firefox. If I go to an out of date certificate here is the new procedure.
If you click:
Technical Details, you see the certificate if you know how to read one (sorta like TVFool)
I Understand the Risks, it takes you to the site
But
the box "Add Exception" permanently ignores the status the certificate for that URL, specially, not sub domains, or the with or without www versions.
So if it's a site you know well, or maybe it's your own site you put up a self signed certificate you just "Add Exception" and that is the last you see of it.
Problem solved (at least for me).
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