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Quite handy sample letters

mjung — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:40:16 +0000

Even though these sample letters are in terms of webpages already shop-soiled, I lost my bookmark for them. So I would like to share it with you and conserve it by the way.

Firefox 3 and SSL certificates - Part II

mjung — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:39:23 +0000

As written yesterday, Firefox 3 displays all SSL certificate errors as error pages. In the openSUSE default config, you need at last four clicks to accept a certificate with an unknown signature.

By setting the following two values you can reduce this to two clicks:

browser.ssl_override_behaviour = 2
browser.xul.error_pages.expert_bad_cert = true

Then Firefox 3 behaves like it’s predecessor and you are not bugged by every self signed certificate. By the way: you should import CAcert.orgs root certificate at least for identifying websites into the keyring of your browser.

Kudos to Robin for mentioning the second configuration option to save another click!

Firefox 3 and SSL certificates

mjung — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:25:05 +0000

In Firefox 3, SSL certificate errors are displayed in the browser as error pages.

I really like this improved new error page, because the click path you have to follow requires that you read through all information once and hopefully remember the correct click path next time you encounter a SSL certificate with an unknown signature.

Unfortunately this new feature gets after a while really annoying. Luckily users may configure this feature using about:config. I suggest you change browser.ssl_override_behaviour to 2.