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Why does Firefox send scary warning "This Connection is Untrusted" for URLs that I know are OK?

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normankline
normankline
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Example: I try to log on to renew automobile registration at www.DMV.state.pa.us or other innocuous locations and I receive that scary warning. So I log in on Explorer on my PC and the website works OK. Am I doing something wrong?

Example: I try to log on to renew automobile registration at www.DMV.state.pa.us or other innocuous locations and I receive that scary warning. So I log in on Explorer on my PC and the website works OK. Am I doing something wrong?

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Raine Dragon
Raine Dragon
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as far as I know, you are not doing anything wrong. I get the same message for some government managed pages. I believe it has to do with who furnishes their certificates.

Firefox has a article that explains security certificates here: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/This%20connection%20is%20untrusted

normankline
normankline Question owner
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I appreciate the comfort of your reply. When I saw that Explorer opened the website OK, I understood it was a FireFox issue. So, in future, I will simply ignore the warnings and go ahead with opening the website -- or if that fails I will walk 3 feet to my wife's PC and open it with Explorer. But, hello, FireFox, should you be in touch with these government web masters?