Firefox and syncing with https

[prettyclaire]

I have noticed the certificate that you use for ssl and https doesn't seem to work with firefox stable 32.02. It seems to work fine in google chrome, so I wonder if it is a mozilla certificate security thing? Can anyone else test this? I have noticed the extension on its own seems fine, but the program intercepting the scripts doesnt seem to work right.

 

[Boo Berry]

Odd, the certificate is working fine here. Are you getting an error, e.g the connection is not trusted error?

 

[prettyclaire]

It doesnt even let me get into anything, when you try to first sync, it blocks it. Turn it off, and it works, very weird

 

[Boo Berry]

Oh Firefox's sync feature. You can try adding this rule to your user filter;

@@||sync.services.mozilla.com$document

Personally, I have three other Mozilla domains whitelisted and Firefox's sync works for me. So if the above doesn't work, try these too;

@@||services.mozilla.com$document
@@||mozilla.org/update$document
@@||versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org/update$document

 

[prettyclaire]

maybe that should be added to the internal whitelist perhaps?

 

[Boo Berry]

Indeed. Same with Chrome's sync URLs I have whitelisted too. Did the rule(s) work for you?

 

[avatar]

Cannot reproduce it, sync works fine for me.

Try adding services.mozilla.com to SSL exclusions ("Settings" - "Network" - "Exclusions..." link).
Please tell me if it works - we'll add services.mozilla.com to default exclusions.

 

[Boo Berry]

Google uses google.com/chrome-sync for Sync too. But they use google.com/chrome-variations and google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant for other features as well. Not sure what Opera's sync URLs are.

 

[prettyclaire]

this is what i get


Any ideas why?

 

[mysteriously]

Are you using portable firefox?
https://kb.adguard.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/29/10/filtering-support-for-https-connections-in-portable-browsers

 

[prettyclaire]

Nope, Windows 8.1 default 64 bit install

In the end i needed to follow this advice, https://kb.adguard.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/29/10/filtering-support-for-https-connections-in-portable-browsers

Even though this is a brand new firefox install into windows 8.1. Maybe they changed the process on certificate importing for authorities perhaps? Either way, through it I got it working, wonder why it never worked to begin with, weird.

 

[Boo Berry]

In that case it's easier to close Firefox, disable protection in Adguard for a few seconds, re-enable protection, wait 1 minute then finally re-open Firefox. Firefox's method of importing certificates is different than other browsers.

https://kb.adguard.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/21/10/the-connection-is-not-trusted

 

[prettyclaire]

I tried that first time, didn't work, I had to manually install it as if it was portable. The advice to do what you asked didn't work, I did read the thread you linked to. Anyway, I got it working by looking for the root certificate and manually importing it into authorities/ certificates, or what ever it is lol.

 

[Boo Berry]

As long as it's working now, that's great!