Nelson B Bolyard:
Eddy Nigg wrote, On 2008-10-18 20:10:
Requiring a change to about:config would facilitate your needs (because
you have the knowledge to do both - change the config and know what it
means), while still protecting the standard user who neither cares about
security nor has any clue what certificates are.
Isn't that just a few more clicks?
There are already lots of web pages telling users how to set up security
exceptions, to work around the "bug" in FF3.
Do you imagine that such pages would not also quickly arise for an
about:config setting?
Yes, but the ones doing that must have a better knowledge about the
browser. It still would effectively - I mean really effectively -
prevent the other 99% from accessing such a site. Just think about the
pain to search and understand what exactly to do in about:config. This
isn't something my parents, wife and children would do, it's something
_ME_ and _YOU_ would do.
The ones who really need it belong either to the crowd which prefers to
use self-signed certificates by all means or professionals, which are
unfortunate enough to configure routers and other administrative sites
and applications. However both of the groups know about the dangers
involved (the former don't care and mostly never understood the meaning
of certificates anyway, the later might be aware about the complications).
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Regards
Signer: Eddy Nigg, StartCom Ltd.
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Blog: https://blog.startcom.org
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