after fedora linux upgrade of firefox, cert error on google homepage
Bug 1648617 on redhat bugzilla is not getting any attention ... nine times out of ten when I open firefox it goes to a page saying "your connection is not secure" when visiting https://www.google.com/ If I hit alt-home to go to the home page (google) about ten times, on the tenth time approximately it will load google successfully. Then it works fine for a few times. If I launch a separate instance of the browser it works okay. Then if I close firefox and do not use it for a while it goes back to the original state of not working.
Steps to Reproduce: 1. start web browser, assuming home page is https://www.google.com 2. 3.
Actual results: Your connection is not secure
The owner of www.google.com has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website.
This site uses HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) to specify that Firefox may only connect to it securely. As a result, it is not possible to add an exception for this certificate.
Learn more…
Report errors like this to help Mozilla identify and block malicious sites
www.google.com uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown. The server might not be sending the appropriate intermediate certificates. An additional root certificate may need to be imported.
Error code: SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER There are tons of error reports on the firefox website pertaining to this. looks like jscher2000 does not think something is wrong and thinks firefox is configured incorrectly, but lots of people were complaining about this. Note: I noticed that very briefly when firefox loads up, it flashes on the screen one of those firefox home pages that you get when you first install or upgrade firefox. Since this is a recently upgraded fedora from 28 to 29, I thought maybe it was getting stuck on that page (sort of like a splash screen after the upgrade). ........
when I start firefox especially after a firefox upgrade I get the above error with the "your connection is not secure" message. Then I can either press the "Learn more" button which is described above or "Back". I found out that if you press the other button "Back" it takes me to https://start.fedoraproject.org; if I press the "left" button on firefox after that it takes me to the first web page in the "stack" which is my home page https://www.google.com which loaded; but if I try a google search it does not work. The only place I could find https://start.fedoraproject.org in any configuration files is in /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/omni.ja /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/defaults/preferences/firefox-redhat-default-prefs.js /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/defaults/preferences/
The bug is that when you upgrade firefox it shows this default the first time you open firefox. It is SUPPOSED to go back to the default homepage I set for myself, https://www.google.com on subsequent invocations of firefox. But it does not. Also it gives the security error.
Can someone please comment on this? I can not use the web browser decently.
Also the firefox website said this may be due to an incorrectly set system clock or timezone. System clock can not be set in bios !!!! root@electron# timedatectl status
Local time: Sat 2019-02-02 21:45:06 PST
Universal time: Sun 2019-02-03 05:45:06 UTC
RTC time: Sun 2019-02-03 05:45:06
Time zone: America/Los_Angeles (PST, -0800)
System clock synchronized: yes
NTP service: active
RTC in local TZ: no
root@electron#
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/07/beware_the_coming_chrome_certificate_apocalypse/
something about symantec and google fighting over google's https policy
and symantec's issuing of certificates.
The message I get is:
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Your connection is not secure
The owner of www.google.com has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website.
This site uses HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) to specify that Firefox may only connect to it securely. As a result, it is not possible to add an exception for this certificate.
Learn more…
Report errors like this to help Mozilla identify and block malicious sites [Go Back] [Advanced]
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when you look to the left of the URL, you see an "i" inside a circle, not a security green lock. When you click on the "i", you get the option to click on the ">" to the right of "connection is not secure" which takes you to "site security / www.google.com" and at the bottom there is a tab for "more information". Clicking on "more information" gives you a dialog box with a button to "view certificate". That button does not work. Looks like a bug.
On the main page described above, if you click on "[Advanced]" you can obtain a certificate.
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www.google.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown. The server might not be sending the appropriate intermediate certificates. An additional root certificate may need to be imported. Error code: SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER
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clicking on SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER gives:
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Peer’s Certificate issuer is not recognized.
HTTP Strict Transport Security: true HTTP Public Key Pinning: true
Certificate chain:
BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
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END CERTIFICATE-----
BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
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END CERTIFICATE-----
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I was not able to import this certificate successfully.
this is on fedora linux. I am not aware of any antivirus software, and there is no proxy (direct connect to internet) and the system clock is correct. do I need an "additional root certificate"? If so what please? I have tried deleting cert8.db and cert9.db and "firefox refresh-ing" the whole ~/.mozilla directory.