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How can you set Firefox to, or tell if FF is always checking for certificate revocation?

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I am anticipating a number of certificate revocations related to the heartbleed voulnerability, and would like to be able to check whether Firefox is checking for revocation, and tell it to if not.

I am anticipating a number of certificate revocations related to the heartbleed voulnerability, and would like to be able to check whether Firefox is checking for revocation, and tell it to if not.

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By default, Firefox will check but, if the OCSP server is not available, will accept the certificate for the time being.

Edit menu > Preferences > Advanced > Certificates mini-tab > "Validation" button

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By default, Firefox will check but, if the OCSP server is not available, will accept the certificate for the time being.

Edit menu > Preferences > Advanced > Certificates mini-tab > "Validation" button

cor-el
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For this heartbleed issue you can also temporarily disable OCSP Stapling by setting the security.ssl.enable_ocsp_stapling pref to false on the about:config page.

Make sure to check in a few days if you still need this workaround and if necessary reset the pref to true.