FireFox Problem?

donnac2558

I have Firefox 53.3, in fact it did a quick update last week.

Since yesterday I have been having problems with various sites. I get the message from Firefox that Outlook, is today's one 'their licence has expired'. Yesterday a forum I visit and was on earlier suddenly got the same screen even Facebook.( Please don't judge me:p) Of course the box report to Firefox is ticked and send automatically.

Now on E I get into my Outlook mail with no problems. The other one seemed to clear after I rebooted and everything went back to normal.

Anyone else having this problem? And anyway to stop it. There is no 'Continue To Site' message so cannot ignore it.

molerat

SECURE CONNECTION FAILED

An error occurred during a connection to outlook.live.com. Invalid OCSP signing certificate in OCSP response. Error code: SEC_ERROR_OCSP_INVALID_SIGNING_CERT

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the web site owners to inform them of this problem.

Learn more…


edit : weird, signed in using IE then went back to FF (not signed out) and it worked OK. Signed out then tried to sign back in got the error.

edit 2: Typing "outlook.live.com" allows me to sign in OK, my old shortcut "login.live.com" gives the failure. Also when signing out it goes to that failure page. At least I can get in now though.

DoaM

Is there not a "Proceed with caution" or similar link on the "Error" page? I know Chrome tends to do that when it sees a page it doesn't like.

Or perhaps there's a new setting in FF that lets you decide how to handle such "errors"?

Mr.Generous

latest Firefox is 53.0.3 - there has been a fake update page with a link NOT to firefox claiming an update. Did you update via the firefox menu panel in top right corner by clicking "Version?" or follow a pop up or new page link that just appeared? Could be a browser hijack.

Jivesinger

molerat wrote: »

SECURE CONNECTION FAILED

An error occurred during a connection to outlook.live.com. Invalid OCSP signing certificate in OCSP response. Error code: SEC_ERROR_OCSP_INVALID_SIGNING_CERT

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the web site owners to inform them of this problem.

I was getting that last night on another Microsoft.com site with FF, and I see I'm still getting it this morning.

donnac2558

DoaM wrote: »

Is there not a "Proceed with caution" or similar link on the "Error" page? I know Chrome tends to do that when it sees a page it doesn't like.

Or perhaps there's a new setting in FF that lets you decide how to handle such "errors"?

No, that is the weird part, I know usually it will give the option but not on this.

donnac2558

Mr.Generous wrote: »

latest Firefox is 53.0.3 - there has been a fake update page with a link NOT to firefox claiming an update. Did you update via the firefox menu panel in top right corner by clicking "Version?" or follow a pop up or new page link that just appeared? Could be a browser hijack.

No, what I got and have before is.

Firefox is updating and will start shortly. So a bar appears downloading and then just opens as normal. Nothing to click, this has happened the past few updates over some months now. My Firefox is set to update automatically. It does open the Firefox page, but nothing to click and my normal home page tab is there I just close the Firefox page and move on.

donnac2558

molerat wrote: »

SECURE CONNECTION FAILED

An error occurred during a connection to outlook.live.com. Invalid OCSP signing certificate in OCSP response. Error code: SEC_ERROR_OCSP_INVALID_SIGNING_CERT

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the web site owners to inform them of this problem.

Learn more…


edit : weird, signed in using IE then went back to FF (not signed out) and it worked OK. Signed out then tried to sign back in got the error.

edit 2: Typing "outlook.live.com" allows me to sign in OK, my old shortcut "login.live.com" gives the failure. Also when signing out it goes to that failure page. At least I can get in now though.

Did the 2nd one and lets me sign in.

Celtic_Connection

Providing you've done the obvious; deleted cookies and cleared Firefox's cache; please proceed with the following.

Step 1. Completely uninstall Firefox.
Step 2. Download the program 'Ccleaner' (free to download, very reliable & safe); install.
Step 3. Run a scan for issues in the registry. Click 'yes to all' when it completes in order to delete missing registry entries.
Step 4. Restart computer.
Step 5. Re-download Firefox stub installer from a REPUTABLE source (Mozilla!).
Step 6. Install Firefox and try visiting these websites again.

You can thank me later.

Jivesinger

Celtic_Connection wrote: »

Providing you've done the obvious; deleted cookies and cleared Firefox's cache; please proceed with the following.

Step 1. Completely uninstall Firefox.
Step 2. Download the program 'Ccleaner' (free to download, very reliable & safe); install.
Step 3. Run a scan for issues in the registry. Click 'yes to all' when it completes in order to delete missing registry entries.
Step 4. Restart computer.
Step 5. Re-download Firefox stub installer from a REPUTABLE source (Mozilla!).
Step 6. Install Firefox and try visiting these websites again.

You can thank me later.

Can we curse you for wasting people's time instead?

I wouldn't bother with the above - I'm using a fresh installation of Firefox on a fresh installation of Windows 10, and I'm getting the same OCSP errors as mentioned on certain Microsoft websites, as I have on 2 other computers with recent versions of Firefox.

I think someone (Mozilla or Microsoft?) somewhere needs to do something on a server.

molerat

All seems to be working OK now.