Posted on Tuesday, July 02 2019 @ 10:28 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
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a new blog post, Mozilla explains the upcoming Firefox 68 release will fix a problem that causes some anti-virus software to crash HTTPS websites. When TLS connections get intercepted by the anti-virus software, Firefox displays an error and the website fails to load.
Firefox is different than a number of other browsers in that we maintain our own list of trusted CAs, called a root store. In the past we’ve explained how this improves Firefox security. Other browsers often choose to rely on the root store provided by the operating system (OS) (e.g. Windows). This means that antivirus software has to properly reconfigure Firefox in addition to the OS, and if that fails for some reason, Firefox won’t be able to connect to any websites over HTTPS, even when other browsers on the same computer can.
The Firefox 68 update will be released on July 9th. The problem popped up with the introduction of Firefox 65, over half a year ago.
