firefox 90.0.2,2 will not load mozilla.com

Graham Perrin grahamperrin at gmail.com
Wed Sep 1 03:49:18 UTC 2021


On 31/08/2021 22:12, Doug Denault wrote:

>>> … www.mozilla.com uses security technology that is outdated and 
>>> vulnerable to attack. An attacker could easily reveal information 
>>> which you thought to be safe. The website administrator will need to 
>>> fix the server first before you can visit the site.
>>>
>>> Error code: NS_ERROR_NET_INADEQUATE_SECURITY
>>>
>>> Others without security (for me) include american.express, 
>>> google.com, amazon.com and youtube.com. freebsd.org works. As far as 
>>> I can tell this only affects me.
>>>
>>
>> couple things worth checking:
>> - make sure ca_root_nss is on latest version (I'm on v3.69 and not 
>> seeing this issue)
>> - make sure your system clock is in sync
>>
>> for debugging, maybe try accessing a site via curl.  it may report a 
>> more helpful error message, or if it works it's possible the issue is 
>> isolated to firefox.
>
> Thanks Pete, I did update ca_root [ca_root_nss: 3.58 -> 3.63]. Clocks 
> are sync'd using FreeBSD defaults and, curl gave no output. Chrome 
> works. It seems clear that the lack of any others there is something 
> firefox does not like about my setup. 


Do you get the same error for <https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/>? 
(The site to which <http://www.mozilla.com/> redirects, for me in the UK.)



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