Comments on: Firefox 2.0: SSL 2 Tweak

By: Yepyep

Yepyep — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:51:51 +0000

Had a similar problem on my mac, i couldn’t access htts sites at all,
until i discovered that my problem was i my firewall (little snitch) denying access to port 403 on https sites… once i allowed it … no problems…
so checking the firewall might be an idea …..

By: Dawn

Dawn — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:17:20 +0000

Thank you for this. I kept having problems with IE and I decided to switch to Firefox. Being unfamiliar with firefox I knew I would have some learning to do. When I went to check my yahoo email, it kept saying ssl protocol disabled and I was stumped because I’m not a computer expert or even close.

Thanks for this because thru googling I found this site and was able to correct the problem.

By: ctmax

ctmax — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:34:59 +0000

did your suggestion but nothing happens… why it is so hard to find a solution to such a simple problem…. though maybe i am in a different situation. i am trying to connect to one of our servers that requires certificate or authentication thru ssl, in IE 6 no problem, firefox only error. so whats up with firefox 2.0????????

By: Ruben’s blog » Blog Archive » Certificate authentication not working with correos.es and Firefox 3.0?

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:06:42 +0000

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By: PHAM

PHAM — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:48:22 +0000

Nothing Here WORKS!!!

By: Mauricio

Mauricio — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:29:07 +0000

Try

apt-get install libsqlite3-0 libsqlite0

in debian system, if your linux uses another distribuition find how you
install these packages.

Att
Mauricio de Sousa Coelho

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:16:24 +0000

Just wanted to say this saved my ass so a million thank yous to you

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:44:48 +0000

What a great dispointement. Nothing work. I will have to go back to WinXP and IE6 or IE7 because those version work

By: George Gill

George Gill — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:07:35 +0000

I get this message when opening FF 2.0.0.9. Is this problem related to this discussion?

Could not initialize the browser’s security component. The most likely cause is problems with files in
your browser’s profile directory. Please check that this directory has no read/write restrictions and
your hard disk is not full or close to full. It is recommended that you exit the browser and fix the
problem. If you continue to use this browser session, you might see incorrect browser behaviour
when accessing security features.

By: mikalainis

mikalainis — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:12:56 +0000

I have FF 2.0.09 on Linux UBUNTU and can’t access any of HTTPS sites.
I’ve done done all of the following:
1. enable security.enable_ssl2 to true
2. enable security.enable_ssl3 to true
3. enable security.ssl3.rsa_rc4_40_md5 to true

and still did not fix the problem.

Does anybody know what else could be a problem?

By: Mark L

Mark L — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:33:01 +0000

After trying EVERYTHING else suggested, I (ugh) downloaded the MSIE 6 SP1 and low and behold, I can check my email again. WooHoo!

Still not sure what exactly happened here, but the SP1 update fixed it for me! Thank goodness I’m not forced to use Explorer again.

Good luck to all you other frustrated people – this little “issue” only took me 5.5 hours to rectify.

By: Pinky

Pinky — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:35:07 +0000

Thanks to Raj..

I’ve tried everything but somehow it getting more worst. I can’t even open any encrypted pages including mails.

Then I tried to change

1. enable security.enable_ssl2 to true
2. enable security.enable_ssl3 to true
3. enable security.ssl3.rsa_rc4_40_md5 to true

Everything works just fine. =) Thank you!!!

By: hinkelstone

hinkelstone — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:31:25 +0000

I’ve experienced the same problem as python12. I’ve enabled any ssl2/ssl3 option, except disk_cache_ssl, but still couldn’t connect to http://www.paypal.com or any other SSL encrypted site (banking, webmail…).

The solution for me was to have a look at my personal firewall options and saw that some traffic regarding FF was blocked. After unblocking SSL connections could be instantly established.

I remember a lot of firewall warnings, that FF was trying to connect to the internet by using one of these protocols: UDP/ICMP/TCP (at this time I was *not* doing anything with FF, FF was just open and had some open pages).

Because FF is a webbrowser and the web’s protocol is HTTP/HTTPS, I became suspicious and blocked those connections. I know, that HTTP/HTTPS runs upon TCP/IP, but doing TCP/IP is not FF’s job. The browser should stick to the abstraction!.

Regards,
Michael

By: stacia

stacia — Sun, 13 May 2007 06:35:15 +0000

I experienced the same problems after I imported my IE favorites and settings to Firefox. I couldn’t even access Firefox addons website and I had ssl enabled. I unchecked the block popup windows box under firefox-tools-content and that solved my problem.

By: Raj

Raj — Thu, 10 May 2007 13:51:10 +0000

Hi Gurus,
After going through each switch in ssl2 and ssl3, i could get the ssl2 working. This is what should be done.
1. enable security.enable_ssl2 to true
2. enable security.enable_ssl3 to true
3. enable security.ssl3.rsa_rc4_40_md5 to true

Close the FF browser windows if they are opened and open again, try.
This should work.

Regards,Raj