Enabling SSL2 in Firefox 2
Well, I had upgraded my Firefox 1.5.0.7 to Firefox 2 as soon as it came out. Apart from the icons and the look, as a user I didn’t notice any difference. But I had to disable/uninstall a lot of extensions as they were not compatible with Firefox 2. I especially loved the Upload to ImageShack extension. Anyways, I thought a few sacrifices were needed to be on the bleeding edge.
Until today.
Today, I went to my ISP’s site and tried to log in.
Firefox 2 balked at me “Firefox can’t connect securely”. Here is a snapshot (click to enlarge) :
Now, I said to myself, “This would not do. It is very judgmental of a software to decide which site I can visit and which I cannot.” I looked at all the options and cannot find anything that can solve this issue. So I decided to do it the old fashioned way. I typed in “about:config” in the address bar and pressed enter.
Scrolling through the list I found a few boolean entries which seemed to be related to SSL2. SSL2 is the encryption method which my ISP uses. SSL3 is the new technology and will eventually replace SSL2. Anyways, I decided to switch their vales and see what happens. All of them were set to false. I changed their values to true. and tried logging in again.
Voila!!! I am now connected.
I decided that there will be many users facing this problem, so here is a step-by-step procedure to do what I did.
- Start Mozilla Firefox 2.
- Type in about:config in the address bar. Here is a snapshot :
- Now in the page that comes up type in “ssl2” in the Filter textbox. You will get something like this (click for a larger image) :
- Now set them all to true, like this (click for a larger image) :
You are done. Now try opening whatever site you were trying to open earlier.
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santosh, thank you! i had been trying to log in to a site where i have an account for a few hours after installing the new firefox, and was about to give up, when i found your explanation of how to solve the SSL2 problem.
you saved my life!
peter, brussels, belgium
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Help me please…
I just installed Firefox 2.0, and all of a sudden, my username/password isn't being inserted in the signon window (it always was before). I tried the usual suspects–I did not mistakenly tell FF not to remember the password for this site; and I also tried the remember password bookmarklet, but all to no avail–FF will not ask me to remember this password. What do I need to do to get around this?
It worked for me..
The only thing I had to do extra is look for ssl3 and click on the false entries so they became true as well. Then it worked for me.
@Jeroen: Thank you for sharing your bit of info. I am sure someone would find it useful.
Clear, complete instructions. Perfect. Thank you very much for taking the time to post this.
@John : You are welcome
When i tried to click the link ‘Existing user’ in http://www.sbicard.com,i get a pop warning as ‘Firefox can’t connect securely to http://www.sbicard.com...”
I tried enabling security.ssl2 configs to true as well as the ssl3 to true ,but still am unable to click successfully the ‘Existing USer’ tab in that page.Please help me resolve this.
Thank you so mutch for this.