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If you visit a website with either an expired or a self-signed SSL certificate, Firefox 3 will not show that page at all. Instead, the browser shows the “customs officer” graphic and an error saying the website may be dangerous. Apparently this is seen as an issue by some people (I dig it.. and you can always override it).

Of course, excuse or no, according to Netcraft, as many as 18% of the Fortune 1000 websites have expired SSL certificates. That means the odds are pretty good that Firefox 3 is going to block you from accessing some legitimate sites.

I’m gunna say thumbs-up to FireFox for doing us all a favor. People like my mom have no idea what an SSL Cert even is… if it stops here from hitting some bogus self-signed site in error then kudos to the FireFox team.

Read more at WebMonkey

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