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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:50:47 -0400, "Mayayana"   
    wrote:   
      
   >  However. a browser like Firefox will have it's own code for this.   
   >It's only necessary if you're using Win32 API and want to enable   
   >TLS 1.1/1.2. If you're getting cert problems then look at the   
   >sites. Some are a false alarm because 1) everyone has been pushed to   
   >use https and 2) smaller websites usually don't have their own cert.   
   >So you might get an error that acme.com is not providing its own cert.   
   >Assuming you're not planning to give them a credit card, it's fine. It's   
   >probably the cert of their webhost.   
      
   I use different browsers for different sites.   
      
   I use Firefox 41 (which works fine on Wikipedia), and if a site tells   
   me the certificate has expired, I just make it an exception, and   
   usually everything works fine.   
      
   But some sites, like Twitter, won't work with Firefox 41, and for that   
   I use Opera, which works fine with Twitter. And when it says the site   
   certificate has expired, it usually lets me override it -- that   
   sometimes happen when I follow links on Titter.   
      
   But sometimes it will not let me override it, and the site itself   
   blocked me. I informed the owner of the site, swho suggested that I   
   try this Windows patch, so I asked if anyone else had tried it. That   
   registry patch thing looks scary to me.   
      
   Opera doesn't work well on some sites -- Facebook is one of them --   
   when I use Opera it won't let me comment on posts. So for those I use   
   Maxthon, which is bloated, clunky and slow. Ind if it hits sites with   
   security certificate problems, it tells me that Avast has blocked   
   access to those sites, and there's no override for that, as there is   
   for Firefox and Opera.   
      
      
      
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