Firefox recommends that you don't enter your password

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2016-03-10 at 14:24 +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
> "Firefox recommends that you don't enter your password,
> credit card and other personal information on this
> website"
> 
> With a button labelled "Don't Trust This Website" alongside.
> 
> Clearly that's not an option for a $work system, so I'd like to 
> understand why it is making that suggestion.

I don't have that version, so this is just a guess, but is your $work
system using SSL certificates? If not, that's probably the reason - you
are using a clear-text channel and Firefox is telling you not to use it
for sensitive information.

If (and remember I'm just guessing) this is the reason, the cure is to
change your $work website to use SSL.

It is also possible that your $work server already supports SSL, but
doesn't require it - see what happens if you use https:// in front of
the $work uRL instead of http://

Another possibility is that for some reason your $work website has
triggered Firefox's "bad website" detectors, but I don't know how that
works so have no idea how to fix it if that's what's happening.

Reminder: I have no idea what I am talking about.

Regards, K.

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