disable site security checking
I am opposed to security in real life and especially as regards my computers and software - I want to try to do what I want to do and I do not in the least care what the consequences are, regardless. Sooner or later I will suceed in doing what I set out to do, and once I do, I will no longer care about any other consequences no matter what.
Checking webistes for security certificatres in any fashion is a major BUG as far as I am concerned. I can not deal with this in any way acceptable to me other than these:
1. Abolish the ptactice world-wide
2. Abolish its use as regards me
3. Abolish its use as regards me but give me the option to add a site/situation where I MIGHT someday find some use in verifying who I sm sending or receiving information with or sharing userprivileges with etc.
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No point in trying to change your decision.
I hope you researched the risks, and have well rehearsed restore or mitigation procedures, maybe daily backups suitable for baremetal restores and maybe using a virtual machine for your insecure online activities.
Just use the HTTP version of sites instead of the HTTPS version and there will be no certificates to worry about. Firefox will by default connect you to a HTTPS site if you have used https previously,but you can use forget about this site to access the http version (That removes history & cookies also )
- For explanation of HTTPS purpose see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Https
- Remove websites from the address bar suggestions_clearing-all-items-for-a-single-site
- An explanation of some Firefox information on site security How do I tell if my connection to a website is secure?
- This explains how to turn on one of the security systems
Enable SSL to fix the Firefox cannot connect securely error message
Conversely it shows how to turn it off
By the way even the Google search will use https by default on Firefox. Prevent that and you are more likely too get directed to incorrect sites by your search results.
You are free to do such things if that is what you like. This is however not a forum for discussing firefox development or feature changes and certainly not for changing the way the web works.
Firefox also has phishing and attack warning turned on by default. Again turn the off if you want, all they do is warn you and give you the option to override any warning. Especially if using http only you may wish to leave that feature turned on.
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No point in trying to change your decision.
I hope you researched the risks, and have well rehearsed restore or mitigation procedures, maybe daily backups suitable for baremetal restores and maybe using a virtual machine for your insecure online activities.
Just use the HTTP version of sites instead of the HTTPS version and there will be no certificates to worry about. Firefox will by default connect you to a HTTPS site if you have used https previously,but you can use forget about this site to access the http version (That removes history & cookies also )
- For explanation of HTTPS purpose see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Https
- Remove websites from the address bar suggestions_clearing-all-items-for-a-single-site
- An explanation of some Firefox information on site security How do I tell if my connection to a website is secure?
- This explains how to turn on one of the security systems
Enable SSL to fix the Firefox cannot connect securely error message
Conversely it shows how to turn it off
By the way even the Google search will use https by default on Firefox. Prevent that and you are more likely too get directed to incorrect sites by your search results.
You are free to do such things if that is what you like. This is however not a forum for discussing firefox development or feature changes and certainly not for changing the way the web works.
Firefox also has phishing and attack warning turned on by default. Again turn the off if you want, all they do is warn you and give you the option to override any warning. Especially if using http only you may wish to leave that feature turned on.
I apologize for ranting.
A few things pretty much insist on https unfortunately or id'd just change the url, delete the old cookies, so forth.
I am glad the security features are AVAILABLE for some things they matter a lot. Those are just things I rarely do, and do on a different system.
There's a nice white paper on security design, implies vendors ought to 'just do it' as users will avoid security even though most of them will doubtless complain like crazy when they discover something happened that they thought they had security to prevent.
Perhaps you haven't seen it. https://www.google.com/url?q=http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/32872.pdf&sa=U&ei=j5BVU8rEBKWMyQHv74C4BA&ved=0CB8QFjAA&sig2=PCckfFm7kM1PYVhaLFLCYg&usg=AFQjCNHarG7P_m8pd45ZWURe9ITw-bfkzA
If you don't have protection for your computer, sooner or later some virus or malware will come along and turn your $$$$$$$$ into junk. Also, do you know how many FAKE web sites are out there? I myself fell into the FBI (fake) scam pages 3 times. Each time a different web site. One of the things a security certificate checks to make sure that the site is not a fake.
johnwerneken said
Perhaps you haven't seen it. link {Security (Un-)Usability
Security Usability Fundamentals
Off topic for discussion here and it is something like 100 pages, but I will get round to reading it. It looks interesting. I am sure for instance we have all seen users click buttons without reading the message and probably do that ourselves sometimes. Firefox security will be far from perfect, but it does at least try to default to a safe configuration.
There are a couple of Mozilla security related fora and you may be interested in reading some of the subjects there
- http://www.mozilla.org/about/forums/#dev-security
& http://www.mozilla.org/about/forums/#dev-security-policy - Or probably for general interest and easy reading
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/