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| Firefox SSL-Certificate Debate Rages On                            |
|   from the four-screens-i-mean-really dept.                        |
|   posted by kdawson on Friday August 22, @08:27 (Mozilla)          |
|   http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/22/1139236 |
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BobB-nw points out the ever more raucous [0]debate over the way Firefox 3
handles self-signed certificates. The scary browser warnings have
affected a number of legitimate sites (such as Google AdWords and
LinkedIn) that didn’t renew certs in time. Lauren Weinstein [1]loudly
called attention to the problem early in July. “If you visit a website
with either an expired or a self-signed SSL certificate, Firefox 3 will
not show that page at all. Instead it will display an error message… To
get past this error page, users have to go through four different steps
before they can access the website, which from a usability standpoint is
far from ideal. This way of handling websites with expired or self-signed
SSL certificates is bound to scare away a lot of inexperienced users, no
matter how legitimate the website is.”

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Links:
0. http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=339
1. http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000402.html