Re: Firefox 131 failing all https connections [SOLVED]

On 10/10/2024 14:59, Arthur Chance wrote:
> 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?

OK, it seems that I'd updated Firefox and security/ca_root_nss but
hadn't updated security/nss. Not sure how the latter got missed, but
installing the 3.104 version to match the ca_root_nss version fixed the
problem.

Back to shaving the yak.

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