edgy: firefox/epiphany ssl issues

[Constantine Evans]

I've tried this, and it didn't work. It used to be that firefox required
mozilla and mozilla-psm, but that is long since past. Firefox no longer
uses mozilla-psm.

Scott wrote:
> Justin Kelly wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> ive just added the edgy repo to my dapper install and upgraded most of
>> the gnome desktop related packages (mainly in order to get evolution
>> 2.8)
>>
>> all went well till i tried to use the edgy verions of firefox and epiphany
>>
>> if i browse to any site thats got an ssl certificate i get the below
>> message and cant use that webpage
>>
>> ##### gmail exmaple ######
>> "www.google.com" requires an encrypted connection.
>>
>> The document could not be loaded because encryption support is not installed.
>> #####################
>>
>> ive installed all the ssl/encryption packages that i think are related
>> but to no avail.
>> note: konqueror and opera(from the dapper repo) work fine
> 
> I had the same problem.  But my thought was that it was somehow related 
> to an install of the Mozilla Browser earlier today.  I only did that 
> because some other package (I don't recall which one now) depended on it.
> 
> Anyway, I know mozilla needs the "mozilla-psm" package in order to 
> access SSL sites (I've always wondered why Firefox alone didn't).
> 
> Anyway, my guess is that the Mozilla Browser and Firefox share a gecko 
> library in Ubuntu therefore the sudden added dependency of the 
> mozilla-psm package.
> 
> Or it could be some other freakish thing that I haven't a clue about.
> 
> What I did notice was that that after installing the package nothing 
> changed.  Firefox still acted the same way.
> 
> However when I exited out of XFCE later on and went into KDE Firefox 
> started working.
> 
> I guess one has to log out first.
> 
> Anyhow this is all just speculation. I really have no clue.
> 
> But just for the heck of it, try this.
> 
> 	sudo apt-get install mozilla-psm
> 
> Then log out of X and log back in and see if that helps.
> 
> If it doesn't then I guess I just got lucky and it started working all 
> by itself.  ;-)
> 
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