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Firefox Cannot Connect in normal HTTP, Changes Every Address to https, and Finds All Certifs. Invalid! Why?

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Firefox v4.0.1 declares Distrust on most of the Security Certificates that my long-familiar websites provide, saying that the Certificates that Firefox is offered are not valid for the specific site addressed, and Firefox changes my http:// insecure protocol addresses to https:// secure protocol addresses even if I type http: in the address slot. Then, having demanded Certs., Firefox finds them invalid for the addresses that it displays - most of these, especially sensitive bank/creditcard sites, were normally redirected when Firefox previously found no problem and permitted the connections; but, recently, Firefox will not let me connect to mail.aol.com and att.my.yahoo.com, to read my email, nor to att.com to pay my bill, nor to Firefox Extensions www.webutation.com, and FlagFox site, to accept the latest updates via Add-ons, nor to java.com, nor to adobe.com, etc., to install critical security updates for about the past 10-15 days, now. Please help - there are time-critical dates and tasks now imminent.

Firefox v4.0.1 declares Distrust on most of the Security Certificates that my long-familiar websites provide, saying that the Certificates that Firefox is offered are not valid for the specific site addressed, and Firefox changes my http:// insecure protocol addresses to https:// secure protocol addresses even if I type http: in the address slot. Then, having demanded Certs., Firefox finds them invalid for the addresses that it displays - most of these, especially sensitive bank/creditcard sites, were normally redirected when Firefox previously found no problem and permitted the connections; but, recently, Firefox will not let me connect to mail.aol.com and att.my.yahoo.com, to read my email, nor to att.com to pay my bill, nor to Firefox Extensions www.webutation.com, and FlagFox site, to accept the latest updates via Add-ons, nor to java.com, nor to adobe.com, etc., to install critical security updates for about the past 10-15 days, now. Please help - there are time-critical dates and tasks now imminent.

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David McRitchie
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What is webutation.com other than a parked site for sale, what did you get from it. found it listed as an extension at addons with a homepage webutation.org which matches your add-on, but the website redirects to webutation.net not exactly reassuring. Similar extensions have had problems, in order to report on a site it has to get information from somewhere (each time?).

I see you have Skype which appears that it could cause some problems similar to what you have, but it is disabled when you posted.

Check your extensions against

You have other extensions that may not be listed as Problematic but that I would be very wary of.

Try starting in Safe Mode which can be started from the Help Menu "Ctrl+H" > "Restart with add-ons disabled" which will restart in Safe Mode for one time. See if you can get into your email sites and att.com

FFx
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Hi, McRitchie: My 1st crack at replying to yours. a) Webutation gave me the app download, v1.0.2, via Firefox Add-ons, that's what Webutation gave me; and I must say, Thank you, for questioning my attribution to www.webutation.com; that was my (poor) memory, that gave me the wrong TLD - correcting my goof now, I agree with you, that site was www.webutation.org, not .com (neither was it .net). Accessing the More link in Add-ons gave me Mozilla's page that shows Webutation.org's rating 4 stars out of 5, and 14 reviews; and it displays the corrected, .org URL above for further information, and also a Check for updates link. 

  This was what Firefox reported Distrust on, when the .org link was activated.  Firefox generated the "Untrusted Connection" page, and gives this in Technical Details:

| www.webutation.org uses an invalid security certificate. | | The certificate is only valid for the following names: | | *.kasserver.com , kasserver.com | | (Error code: |ssl_error_bad_cert_domain) | 

  It was this "kasserver.com" stuff that made me worry. I see that the peculiarities of webutation are working as a distraction from my main question, i.e., Why is this installation of Firefox v4.0.1 consistently changing (is redirecting the wrong term?) my plain-vanilla HTTP:// URLs addressing HTTP port no. 80, into Secure URLs using HTTPS://  and accessing Secure HTTP port no. 443??  There would not be a Certificate validity/invalidity problem, if this Firefox would let me connect to the websites without Certificates.  Please note: Webutation is far from alone in being unable to connect - - Firefox is reporting "Problem loading page"  also on these HTTPS connection attempts to major-major websites including Adobe.com, sun.java.com. Type in HTTP://java.com, hit <Enter>, and Ffx changes the address slot to https://java.com, and then, it cannot find the server, the server takes too long responding. One  thought - Is it Webutation that does this to Firefox? OK, I will disable Webutation and restart Ffx and see whether it repeats, and get back to you on that.

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