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Hi,

I am new to this. Very excited about FreeBSD11 so far.

On Firefox, I deleted some certificate authorities in the certificate manager tab, and things haven't been the same. but Firefox started complaining about untrusted sites. So I rolled back the changes with the backup copy of cert8.db. While I can view many sites are ok, I cannot view python notebooks. And many require me to manually add security exception.

For example, the site
https://github.com/mikkokotila/jupyter4kids/blob/master/notebooks/numerical-computing-is-fun-1.ipynb

Firefox timesout and gives an error message "Sorry, something went wrong. Reload?".
However Chromium loads the page just fine.

I tried removing firefox and reinstalling. But the behavior is still the same.

Thanks.
 
If you were trying to start over with a fresh Firefox installation, it would be reading your $HOME/.mozilla directory and sub directories. I'm not positive this would solve your problem, but doing something like mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.old may, (without having to reinstall Firefox), give you that fresh start. One way to test would be to create a new user and see if the new user has the same problem. If the new user doesn't have the issue, then the renaming of the $HOME/.mozilla directory should fix the issue.
 
Create a new profile with firefox -profilemanager.
Then copy cert8.db from the new profile to the profile you used.

BTW you can use Firefox with multiple profiles. To start Firefox with a profile other than the default one do firefox -P "MyProfile". And if you want to start a new Firefox instance with another profile use firefox -P "MyProfile" -no-remote.
 
Thank you both. Your suggestions worked. I moved the .mozilla, and let firefox create a new cert8, and copied it back to the old profile.
By the way, when I create a new profile, mozilla always complains about ns_error network security, and completely locks out of any website.. I had to switch the network.http.spdy.enabled.http2 to false in about:config.
It then works fine.

Is this the expected behavior for firefox, and is this fix ok?
 
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