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From: Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is this a bug in firefox-36.0?
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:47:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5508CB08.4010005@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <meaej3$h3p$1@ger.gmane.org>

On 03/17/2015 04:49 PM, walt wrote:
> I get a certificate verification error when visiting https://www.att.com
> using firefox-36.0, but not when using chrome-41.0.2272.76.
> 
> Anyone else see the same with firefox-36?

I haven't tried, honestly. But I have had problems with Firefox not
including some intermediary certificates before. That breaks the whole
chain of trust.

> BTW, I tried the latest firefox in a Win7 virtual machine and I was
> shocked to see that firefox was updating itself when I was logged in
> as an unprivileged user (i.e. *not* an Administrator).  Are the idiots
> at M$ *really* that stupid?  They've learned nothing, apparently, since
> Win 95 :(

Remove the 'Mozilla Maintenance Service' from Programs & Features (or
whatever it's called) and it won't auto update. Mozilla installs a
privileged service that auto updates its software.


Dan


  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-18  0:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-17 23:49 [gentoo-user] Is this a bug in firefox-36.0? walt
2015-03-18  0:47 ` Daniel Frey [this message]
2015-03-18  1:15   ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2015-03-18  2:34     ` Daniel Frey
2015-03-18 19:42   ` »Q«
2015-03-18  1:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Zhu Sha Zang
2015-03-18  3:53 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-03-18  6:56   ` Mick
2015-03-18  4:48 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-03-18 23:41 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2015-03-18 23:46   ` Daniel Frey
2015-03-19  1:06   ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-03-19 10:57     ` walt
2015-03-19 15:29       ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-03-19  7:26   ` Marc Joliet
2015-03-20  0:15   ` »Q«
2015-03-21  0:18     ` walt
2015-03-21  3:37       ` »Q«
2015-03-24  6:52         ` Mick
2015-03-24  9:36           ` Peter Humphrey

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