Firefox 131 failing all https connections

From: Arthur Chance <freebsd_at_qeng-ho.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 15:59:13 UTC
I've just upgraded to Firefox 131 (131.0_1,2 to be precise) and I can
only access http pages and any attempt to fetch an https page fails with
an empty page. The web developer tools simply show the unhelpful
NS_ERROR_FAILURE for the fetch.

With the previous version (FF 129) everything worked correctly. I have
the ca_root_nss pkg installed, but asking FF 131 about root certificates
shows many expired ones so I suspect it's somehow failing to pick up the
certificates from the pkg.

Any suggestions where I go from here?


Current OS:

> uname -a
FreeBSD arthur.home.qeng-ho.org 13.3-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE-p7
GENERIC amd64

Firefox build options from poudriere:

===> The following configuration options are available for
firefox-131.0_1,2:
     CANBERRA=off: Sound theme alerts
     DBUS=on: D-Bus IPC system support
     DEBUG=off: Build with debugging support
     FFMPEG=on: FFmpeg support (WMA, AIFF, AC3, APE...)
     LIBPROXY=off: Proxy support via libproxy
     LTO=off: Use Link-Time Optimization
     OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=on: Use extra compiler optimizations
     PROFILE=off: Build with profiling support
     TEST=off: Build and/or run tests
====> Extra cubeb audio backends (OSS is always available)
     ALSA=off: ALSA audio architecture support
     JACK=off: JACK audio server support
     PULSEAUDIO=off: PulseAudio sound server support
     SNDIO=off: Sndio audio support


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