Posts tagged #firefox

FireFox 3 Dialog Boxes

Firefox is the default browser on all my platform, and every once in a while I run into strange dialog boxes.
E.g., this evening I updated some digital certificates for the test environment of VeriSign MPKI backend. These certificates are issued by a (private) VeriSign CA. So there's no trust by default.

After generating the keypair in FireFox 3 I got the positive dialog box as showed below.

No problem so far, but the next dialog box 'scared' me a little;

This dialog box, or at least the result, would remove (or delete) the certificate I just generated. The issueing CA is not installed in FireFox (or on the machine itself for all it matters). But in fact the certificate was installed in the Crypto/Certificate store of FireFox, and I could use it to access the VeriSign test backend.

So, eventhough, FireFox warns the user that the content will be deleted (or not added), it doesn't exactly does that at all. Let's see if I can file a bug report, because this occured on all 4 certificates I generated/imported.

Posted on July 8, 2008 and filed under Browsers, Security, Software.

Firefox 3 Bookmarking

Mozilla released Firefox 3 during my holiday. So the first thing I had to do was upgrade v2.x to the latest version. Initially everything seemed fine.... INITIALLY...

The trouble began when I tried to add bookmarks. The new bookmark interface (it's called Library) showed up empty. When I tried to add a bookmark, it was impossible to remove it.

"Why would you want to remove a bookmark??" Well, because every bookmark I added ended up with the URL to some ad. At first I thought I had some weird virus or trojan on my Mac. But it seemed that every Mac had the same problem.

E.g. If I added the SnipURL button to my toolbar (which is basically a javascript) it would work, but when I pressed the button, it would show a Google ad. There was also no way of removing or changing it.

Posted on June 26, 2008 and filed under Annoying, Browsers, Internet, Software.