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Old March 13th 18, 10:59 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Computer Nerd Kev[_2_]
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Default Can I update the security files in an older version of Firefox

In microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion wrote:
Using Win98se with Kernel-Ex, I am able to use Firefox 3.x (3.6.28).
Anything above that dont run well.

With all the added security on websites (httpS), I am constantly getting
security errors.

Is it possible to take the files used for security from a newer version
of Firefox and replace them in this same version I use?

I'm stuck using Win98 for reasons I dont want to get into, so I am stuck
using FF 3.6.28. It was working fairly well till aoo this security crap
became the rule. And there are no other browser that work anymore. So
modifying FF is my last resort.


The certificates can be updated in Firefox 2, which prevents the prompts
telling you of invalid certificates and asking for exceptions. The
process is very manual. As I remember it I had to check the certificate
used by each website, find the equivalent file in the "ca-certificates"
package for Debian Linux, then "import" (or whatever the option in the
Firefox certificates manager was called) that. Many of the certificates
included with Firefox 2 are still valid, but for some reason most of
the Certificate Authorities have switched to newer ones (damn, I looked
up how all this certificate stuff worked back when I was doing it and
now I've forgotten everything).

After doing all that, I discovered a bug which caused sites using many
of the added certificates to fail to load with a error window quoting
a meaningless error number appearing in their place. I then had to
remove most of the certificates which I found triggered the error. In
the end the only important website that I managed to "fix" for all my
trouble was Wikipedia, which now loads without any "invalid
certificate" prompt. Hopefully your version of Firefox doesn't have
this bug.

As for protocols that Firefox 2 doesn't support at all, I haven't seen
any path to updating that individually, and I don't think there is one
for your version of Firefox either. As suggested already, I use a proxy
to get through such barriers,
http://www.ploxey.com/ does the job, but
you loose images. It also seems to have trouble in some browsers, but
there are plenty of others to choose from.

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