Firefox portable - connection not secure issues
I am looking to browse the internet at work. I am confined to IE. SO I put Firefox Portable on a USB drive. However every time I open it up, half the sites I want to go to (such as google.ca) an error comes up saying connection not secure. I have read many posts on what to do to overcome this. Ranging from this chrome://pippki/content/exceptionDialog.xul link to simply bypass the certificate thing. However I believe since this is portable it doesn't store it. When I click "Confirm Security Exception" firefox simply shuts down, then when I boot it back up I have to start over. It saves nothing.
The other thing, I don't think there is any malware on my computer. I saw something about firewalls and security. We here at work use iPrism as the issuer of certificates and I believe iPrism is unknown to firefox or who ever and so it will not allow me to go to them.
I also have Chrome on the stick and it just sucks the ram from my pc which isn't meant to have Chrome on it as it is a standard plain vanilla machine.
Please help
P.S. Where I live we have satellite internet only, and I am trying to upload a screenshot of the certificate viewer. I am not sure it will but it is iPrism.
Chosen solution
When you mentioned certificate exporting and importing I thought I was in a matrix movie. But after playing around for a bit and reading that link I was able to export and import the certificate only to find out that firefox already has the certificate. So then I played around with the "edit trust" buttons and I am now able to view sites I wasn't able to before (on ie).
Thank you for all your help. It now works :)
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If you are using a work computer, it could be Firefox is blocked.
I fear that too. Looks like I am stuck with portable chrome and IE
hi roger, you could try if it is possible to export the iprism certificate from ie to firefox, similar as jscher2000 has explained it in this thread: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1068675
Chosen Solution
When you mentioned certificate exporting and importing I thought I was in a matrix movie. But after playing around for a bit and reading that link I was able to export and import the certificate only to find out that firefox already has the certificate. So then I played around with the "edit trust" buttons and I am now able to view sites I wasn't able to before (on ie).
Thank you for all your help. It now works :)
You should never set any trust bits on an intermediate certificate as those are only required for trusted root certificates and should never be set for intermediate certificates.
Try to remove this specific certificate from the Certificate Manager and re-import this certificate and re-check the certificate chain to see if there are still issues. You can open "Add Security Exception" by pasting this URL in the location/address bar and paste the URL of the website (https://xxx.xxx) in it's location field.
- chrome://pippki/content/exceptionDialog.xul
Let Firefox retrieve the certificate -> "Get Certificate"
- click the "View" button and inspect the certificate
You can see details like the issuer of the certificate and used intermediate certificates in the Details tab.
You can rename the cert8.db file (cert8.db.old) and delete the cert_override.txt file in the Firefox profile folder to remove intermediate certificates and exceptions that Firefox has stored.
If that has helped to solve the problem then you can remove the renamed cert8.db.old file.
Firefox will automatically store intermediate certificates that servers send in the Certificate Manager for future use.
You can use this button to go to the current Firefox profile folder:
- Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory:
Windows: Show Folder; Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
Modified by cor-el