[Gllug] Mozilla SSL wierdness

[will]

Xander D Harkness wrote:
> Sean Burlington wrote:
> 
>> Steve wrote:
>>
>>> will wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi All,
>>> >
>>> > I have an ongoing problem with mozilla.  Every once in a while (no
>>> > specific intervals, but anything from 6 months to 2 weeks) the SSL
>>> > element of mozilla stops working.  This is a pain, I access my mail
>>> > over SSL and am required to access web pages over SSL for my job.
>>> > This problem has been happening ever since I started using mozilla and
>>> > I have discovered a fix, but it is an inconvenient one.  If I remove
>>> > my .mozilla directory and re-run mozilla the problem goes away, but
>>> > then I have lost all my settings.  I am currently using 1.0 Release
>>> > Candidate 2[0] but I have had this problem with other versions and on
>>> > both redhat and mandrake.  I have screengrabbed the errors I get and
>>> > put them here:
>>> >
>>> > http://home.hellacool.co.uk/error.png
>>> > http://home.hellacool.co.uk/error2.png
>>> >
>>> > Does anyone have any ideas what is causing this, and how I can solve
>>> > this? Google doesn't seem to want to provide any answers to this one.
>>>
>>>
>>> This is quite an oldish version of Mozilla.
>>> Try a newer one maybe. Current is 1.2b which is a testing version. Or
>>> 1.1 for stable.
>>> It may take a while to tell if it's made any difference though.
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I have never had this problem (but I don't use SSL much)
>>
>> if you are upgrading I have had to abandon the latest version of 
>> mozilla(1.2b) as I can't see the imap folders on my mailserver
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure how widespread this problem is but it has been reported
>> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131938
>>
>> so don't use 1.2b if you need imap
>>
> I am using 1.2b with ssl and imap (UW) happily since its arrival.  I had 
> problems with the Mozilla Red Hat upgraded Mozilla on RH8.  I found the 
> config file htmlview and swapped it for 1.2b and all is happy :-)
> 
> What IMAP server are you connecting to?

Dunno, but it is not an IMAP problem, it is an SSL one I am pretty sure.  The 
program does not even start to connect to the IMAP server because SSL is 
disabled.  Checking mail over a normal IMAP connection is fine as the SSL 
component of mozilla does  not need to initialise.  The problem affects web 
pages viewed over SSL aswell, not just mail.

I have had this problem on other versions of Mozilla and on Mandrake as well as 
Redhat.  I can sole the problem by removing my .mozilla directory, but then I 
lose all my settings.  Can anyone point me to anything in this directory that 
could be causing the problem?

Will.


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