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I've exported and imported all my intermediate certificates from google chrome. I'm able to access google.com but unable to access various others like amazon, gitlab, github and so on.
By visiting amazon I clicked on the SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER and the follwoing output was captured...
https://www.amazon.com/ Peer’s Certificate issuer is not recognized. 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I also visited gitlab and clicked "Add exception". I then clicked "Get certificate" and refreshed my page. This resolved the issue. However, this did not work for amazon.
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hi, it looks like you're in a corporate environment where all secure network traffic is intercepted/monitored. you could try if the following step helps as it would make firefox import all custom certificates from the windows trust store on your system: enter about:config into the firefox address bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up) & search for the preference named security.enterprise_roots.enabled. double-click it and change its value to true and restart once.
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hi, it looks like you're in a corporate environment where all secure network traffic is intercepted/monitored. you could try if the following step helps as it would make firefox import all custom certificates from the windows trust store on your system: enter about:config into the firefox address bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up) & search for the preference named security.enterprise_roots.enabled. double-click it and change its value to true and restart once.
philipp said
hi, it looks like you're in a corporate environment where all secure network traffic is intercepted/monitored. you could try if the following step helps as it would make firefox import all custom certificates from the windows trust store on your system: enter about:config into the firefox address bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up) & search for the preference named security.enterprise_roots.enabled. double-click it and change its value to true and restart once.
philipp, you are the man! Thanks, this seemed to fixed it. Hopefully, I'm good to go now. Would you be so kind to explain what I just did please verbosely.
philipp, you are the man! Thanks, this seemed to fixed it. Hopefully, I'm good to go now. Would you be so kind to explain what I just did please verbosely. Also will this setting be saved everytime I restart my computer
HI, something here : https://support.umbrella.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000669728-Configuring-Firefox-to-use-the-Windows-Certificate-Store
Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.
syost said
Would you be so kind to explain what I just did please verbosely. Also will this setting be saved everytime I restart my computer
This change is saved in Firefox preferences, so if other settings are saved, this one should be, too.
Normally Firefox uses an independent certificate store. The settings change instructs Firefox to trust certificates in the main OS certificate store used by the platform's default browser. The benefit is: easier than importing the proxy's signing certificate. The downside is: if malware infects the platform with a fake certificate, Firefox will trust it, too. That isn't too common on a business system.
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syost said
Would you be so kind to explain what I just did please verbosely. Also will this setting be saved everytime I restart my computer
your it department wants to filter/monitor/eavesdrop all secure connections that are happening from your workstation. they have configured the windows operating system to do so correctly, but left out firefox which is using it's own dedicated trust store. by flipping the mentioned preference, you basically are setting firefox to take a look at the operating system level, which certificates should be trusted to be able to get by the certificate error messages that would be appearing otherwise...
jscher2000
If I change my default browser now from chrome over to firefox will Firefox still have the trust certificates from the main OS cert store even though chrome is no longer the default browser?
Hi syost, the main OS certificate store is part of Windows (or on Mac, MacOS X), not any specific browser. Whether you make Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Internet Explorer your default browser, this setting still refers to the Windows certificate store.
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Thanks everyone for the help. All issues seem to be resolved as of now from the above suggestions. Cheers~S