The article *Firefox 90 on POWER (and a JIT progress report)* [1]
summarizes the issue in NSS. It’s upstream bug report 1566124 [2], and
there are two simple patches to be applied to NSS 3.66.

Starting Firefox with `NSS_DISABLE_PPC_GHASH=1` works around the issue.

[1]: https://www.talospace.com/2021/07/firefox-90-on-power-and-jit-progress.html
[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1566124

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Title:
  ppc64le: Fails to load HTTPS pages with `Error code:
  SSL_ERROR_BAD_SERVER`

Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Firefox 90.0+build1-0ubuntu0.21.04.1 fails to load HTTPS URLs with the
  error:

  > Secure Connection Failed
  >
  > An error occurred during a connection to blog.fefe.de. The client has 
encountered bad data from the server.
  >
  > Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_SERVER
  >
  > *   The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the 
authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
  > *   Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

  Nothing related is logged in the terminal window, Firefox was started
  from.

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