How to permanently delete root CAs from mozilla products?

Christoph A. casmls at gmail.com
Mon Sep 19 21:35:27 UTC 2011


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On 09/19/2011 03:55 PM, Robert Marcano wrote:
> On 09/17/2011 06:58 AM, Christoph A. wrote:
>>
>> ...
>  >
>> By "non-persistent" I mean the following:
>> - - I remove a root CA in the "Authorities" tab of mozilla's "certificate
>> manager" by hitting the delete button
>> - - I close the certificate manager
>> - - I reopen the certificate manager
>> - - The - previously removed - root ca is again there.
>>
> 
> When you remove a CA that is bundled with Firefox/Thunderbird, It 
> disappear from the list on the current session, after you restart the 
> application the CA still appear, if you press the "Edit Trust" button, 
> you will see the CA is not trusted for anything. So Firefox is not able 
> to remove the CA if it is bundled, but it remove all trust you have on 
> it, so it will not be valid for anything

You didn't read my mail till the end, did you?
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