Accessing Government Gateway through Mozilla Firefox
My PC was updated 3 months ago - I have had to reinstall Mozilla since then due to XUL runners now I cannot access some programs - today's problem is accessing Government Gateway:- The internet cuts out and hub flashes red when I try to log in..
Help says 'Use TLS1.2 - must be enabled Settings IT options Advanced Security heading tick 'Use TLS 1.2
Settings doesn't give me these options
Can you help pleasee? - an idiot's guide perhaps?
Many thanks
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I do know some Financial and Government sites require pretty high secure browser that they verify to allow access and it could be that the site check fails doesn't allow Firefox browser access to their site. If that is the case your choice is to use their approved browser aka Edge, Chrome, or Safari to access such sites. Firefox browser/Mozilla can't do much about this if those sites decides otherwise.
The TLS 1.1, 1.0 has been disabled by default since Firefox 78.0 and the option to enable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 was removed from the error page in Firefox 97.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/02/its-the-boot-for-tls-1-0-and-tls-1-1/ https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/78.0/releasenotes/
We have disabled TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 to improve your website connections. Sites that don't support TLS version 1.2 will now show an error page.
So Firefox supports TLS 1.2 at the minimum since though most connections use TLS 1.3 now.