Installed FF61 and now GMail won't load.
FF just restarted and installed version 61.0. Now I can't get to Gmail. I get an error stating:
Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during a connection to mail.google.com. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG
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.
Gmail works just fine in Chrome and IE. Anyone else having this problem?
Chosen solution
In recent days, this error code has surfaced much more frequently than in the past, and seems to have a new cause:
"SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG" is occurring when Firefox and a website try to negotiate a connection using the latest TLS protocol (version 1.3) and a "man-in-the-middle" -- typically Avast Web Shield or AVG Web Shield -- somehow messes it up.
Until this is sorted out, I think your two workarounds are either:
(1) Remove the man in the middle (disable Web Shield for secure connections).
See the Avast section of: How to troubleshoot security error codes on secure websites.
(2) Disable TLS 1.3 in Firefox so it connects using an older protocol. To do that:
(A) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful or accepting the risk.
(B) In the search box above the list, type or paste TLS and pause while the list is filtered
(C) Double-click the security.tls.version.max preference to display a dialog where you can change the value from 4 to 3 (this corresponds to TLS 1.2) and then click OK
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).
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Thank you.
Well, it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Same with just searching on Google itself. Sometimes I can search Google and get results, sometimes I get the error about the SSL being too long.
Very strange.
Chosen Solution
In recent days, this error code has surfaced much more frequently than in the past, and seems to have a new cause:
"SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG" is occurring when Firefox and a website try to negotiate a connection using the latest TLS protocol (version 1.3) and a "man-in-the-middle" -- typically Avast Web Shield or AVG Web Shield -- somehow messes it up.
Until this is sorted out, I think your two workarounds are either:
(1) Remove the man in the middle (disable Web Shield for secure connections).
See the Avast section of: How to troubleshoot security error codes on secure websites.
(2) Disable TLS 1.3 in Firefox so it connects using an older protocol. To do that:
(A) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful or accepting the risk.
(B) In the search box above the list, type or paste TLS and pause while the list is filtered
(C) Double-click the security.tls.version.max preference to display a dialog where you can change the value from 4 to 3 (this corresponds to TLS 1.2) and then click OK
Thanks. I do have Avast installed so I'll go turn that off and see if it gets better.