Firefox won't allow connection when site certificate is invalid

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 20:30 +0000, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 23:17 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 20:09 +0000, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > > > Thanks, I was hopeful but it didn't work, even after restarting FF.
> > > 
> > > I believe you want to set 
> > > services.sync.prefs.sync.security.OCSP.disable_button.managecrl to
> > > true 
> > > in about:config. 
> > 
> > Thanks, but there is no such boolean. I only see:
> > 
> > services.sync.prefs.sync.security.OCSP.enabled
> > services.sync.prefs.sync.security.OCSP.require
> > 
> > both of which are set to True.
> > 
> 
> Strange.  I have both those flags, also set to true, but I also have hte
> one I mentioned.
> 
> There was a lot of discussion about this around when Firefox 33 was
> released.  I had to change some setting to get past the issue, but I
> can't find the post that solved my problem now. The one I suggested
> looked like the best bet.

As I mentioned in a separate reply, FF 33 works. This seems to be a
known bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1126034

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