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I get a warning on Firefox 5 too.



Too bad your only choices in Firefox are:

1) Add a permanent exception and forget about it

2) Add a permanent exception and remember to remove it later

3) Not view the content

Personally, I'm wondering where option #4 is:

4) I want to view the content of this webpage, but I don't want to permanently except this certificate because what I'm doing now isn't a high security risk (viewing a blog post about GTK3), but I may end up doing something with a high security risk on this site in the future and I don't want to have an exception at that point.

E.g., if the cert is for *.skype.com, I may want to view https://blog.skype.com without worrying about self-signed/invalid certs, but I might actually care about certs when it comes to https://shop.skype.com.


I have the option to not make it permanent at the bottom of the dialog in 4.0.1 on OS X. By default, it's checked, but it is also clearly there for me.

Edit: A screenshot, for anybody that doesn't see it: http://i.imgur.com/rkZ4c.png Just above "Confirm Security Exception" is the checkbox.


Bad UI then. I never got that far. The button on the "WARNING!" page says "Add Exception..." which leads me to believe that it will not be temporary. If it is a temporary exception, then why do I need to add it anywhere.

(Firefox 4.0.1 Linux)




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