Firefox has been acting funny since the latest update

Lawman
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Firefox has been acting funny since the latest update Jul 30, 2014 16:22:56 GMT

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Post by Lawman on Jul 30, 2014 16:22:56 GMT

I recently updated my Firefox browse to version 31.0, and since then I noticed it's barred me from surfing certain sites, namely displaying this error message:

An error occurred during a connection to www.fanfiction.net. Invalid OCSP signing certificate in OCSP response. (Error code: sec_error_ocsp_invalid_signing_cert)

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem. Alternatively, use the command found in the help menu to report this broken site.

Has any Firefox users been unable to access fanfiction.net since updating to the latest version? And if there's any way to work around this issue, any advice you can offer is much appreciated, thanks in advance.

kainboa I'd buy that for a dollar Posts: 330	Firefox has been acting funny since the latest update Jul 30, 2014 23:26:56 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by kainboa on Jul 30, 2014 23:26:56 GMT I've got the same issue using firefox, using chrome however doesn't give the same problem, so that's a workaround at least.

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Firefox has been acting funny since the latest update Jul 31, 2014 0:07:50 GMT

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Post by Ruinus on Jul 31, 2014 0:07:50 GMT

Try this here:
hello, i can certainly replicate this issue. my guess is that the site is currently implementing measures against the recently published widespread vulnerability that allows webservers with a certain version of

openssl running on them to be exploited (heartbleed.com) & is switching their certificate.

an advanced security feature in firefox is picking up this change as the site doesn't seem to be fully updated for this new certificate yet. you can temporarily work around the issue:

enter about:config into the firefox address bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up) & search for the preference named security.ssl.enable_ocsp_stapling. double-click it and change its value to false.

it is important however, that after a bit of time when the issue gets resolved by the site (maybe try again in 24 hours), you go back and switch the setting to "true" again!

Last Edit: Jul 31, 2014 0:08:01 GMT by Ruinus

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Firefox has been acting funny since the latest update

Post by Lawman on Jul 30, 2014 16:22:56 GMT

Post by kainboa on Jul 30, 2014 23:26:56 GMT

Post by Ruinus on Jul 31, 2014 0:07:50 GMT

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