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I cant log into my emails on live.com, says cert eror yet can login via google chrome

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I log into my email via firefox.Sudenly today i get this message:

"An error occurred during a connection to mail.live.com. 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."

I was able to log into my email using another browser.I tried rebooting firefox- no different.Same error for all my email addresses in live.com( old hotmail address now converted to outlook)

 Any suggestions?
I log into my email via firefox.Sudenly today i get this message: "An error occurred during a connection to mail.live.com. 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." I was able to log into my email using another browser.I tried rebooting firefox- no different.Same error for all my email addresses in live.com( old hotmail address now converted to outlook) Any suggestions?

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hi, we're getting a number of similar reports in the past minutes - this is a misconfiguration on microsoft's server side. if you want to, you can disable OCSP (which is a security mechanism) in the firefox options > advanced > certificates panel until MS will fix the issue.

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As another possible workaround you can temporarily toggle this pref to false on the about:config page to see if disabling OCSP Stapling works for you.

  • security.ssl.enable_ocsp_stapling = false

You can open the about:config page: via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.

It is best to reset this pref via the right-click context menu to true once you are done with accessing an affected website since this is a security feature.

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