Hi Phil, this is probably something the pkix team should look at. can you
file a bug under Core/Security:PSM ?

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:51 PM, Phil Davis <davpj...@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

> I am accessing pfSense router/s that have self-generated certificates so
> obviously they do not validate publicly. Prior to Firefox 31 I had the
> security warning and had clicked through to add the certificate for a
> number of these routers on our internal networks.
> The list of certificates in Firefox then included a bunch under the name
> "CompanyName".
> After upgrade to Firefox 31 it started taking a long time (15-20 seconds)
> to bring up the login page to these routers. During that time the CPU was
> running 100%. Then after login, every few minutes Firefox would use 100%
> CPU for a minute or 2, becoming effectively unresponsive in any tab.
> I tried Firefox 24, 28, 29, 30 - none of these had the symptoms.
> Tried Firefox 31, 32, 33 (beta) and 34 (aurora). They all had the symptoms
> described.
> Looking in pfSense forums I discovered this post -
> https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=82295.0
> I deleted the certificates under "CompanyName".
> Now display time for the Login page is back to normal, and Firefox CPU
> time is not going crazy every few minutes.
> Maybe there is something that can be done to hep this situation? Maybe
> these old "private" certificates need to be cleaned out on upgrade? Or
> maybe something in the code that is going nuts trying to validate these
> "private" certificates needs to be fixed?
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