Why did you make firefox suck so much!?? omg i hate you now! Firefox has been my goto browser for windows, debian, and android for many years. WORST UPDATE EVER
you took my favorite SEARCH BAR AWAY!!!!! I had the ability to add special custom search engines from places like kickass torrents or the pirate bay. Plus you did something stupid which made google.com report bad certificates and I can no longer go to the site. PLUS you removed my ability to say "i know what I am doing, take me to the dangerous site anyway."
So now you are censoring my internet usage and telling me that you're better suited than I am to decide where i should and should not go.
Bye Bye Mozilla. It's been a great many years. I had one of the very first versions. Either you fix your mistakes and revert back to what we all loved, or you're going to lose all your fanboys who are going to chrome.
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Modified by Chris Ilias
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Hi,
The people who answer questions here, for the most part, are other Firefox users volunteering their time (like me), not Mozilla employees or Firefox developers.
If you want to leave feedback for Firefox developers, you can go to the Firefox Help menu and select Submit Feedback... or use this link. Your feedback gets collected by a team of people who read it and gather data about the most common issues.
None of what you're experiencing is intended to happen. Could you provide more details about what you're referring to? Maybe we can help fix it.
To get the search bar back, try the instructions in the following article: Add the Search bar to your Firefox toolbar
KirkH420 said
Plus you did something stupid which made google.com report bad certificates and I can no longer go to the site.
Might you have customized "OCSP" settings? Firefox normally checks with an OCSP server on whether a site's certificate has been revoked. Sometimes the server does not respond and then Firefox normally treats the certificate as not revoked. However, some users have customized Firefox to treat the certificate as revoked in that situation, and this can cause the problem you're encountering, when the OCSP server is not responding.
Please see this thread: SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER on google. youtube since yesterday.
Or in more detail:
(1) 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.
(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste ocsp and pause while the list is filtered
(3) If the security.OCSP.require preference is bolded and "modified" or "user set" to true, double-click it to restore the default value of false
You may need to reload your Google page bypassing the cache, using either:
- Shift+click the reload button
- Ctrl+Shift+r (on Mac Command+Shift+r)
To clarify, this does not completely disable checking whether a certificate is revoked. There are two different preferences:
- security.OCSP.enabled = 1 (default setting) requires Firefox to check the cert with the OCSP server to make sure it hasn't been revoked
- security.ocsp.require determines what happens if the OCSP server does not respond
- false (default setting) treats the cert as not revoked and you can connect normally
- true treats the cert as revoked and prevents you from connecting
I suppose your choice about "require" depends on how often you expect to encounter a server with a revoked certificate and a nonresponsive OCSP server. I think the risk is low, but then, I may not be as adventurous in my browsing as you are.