Firefox's warning have to be clicked on twice in order to prevent them

[Dave Morley]

Binary package hint: firefox

Firefox issues a warning that you are entering or leaving a secure page. In order to turn this of you have to check then uncheck the box if you leave it unchecked without checking it and unchecking it the messages keep popping up.

The message reads something like to be informed of this permanently check box.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

I am unable to reproduce this here. Can you please give us the output of "apt-cache policy firefox" and "lsb_release -a" so we have a better understanding of what ubuntu and firefox you are using. Does this happen if you run firefox in terminal with "firefox --safe-mode" are you able to reproduce this than?

Which flash package do you have installed?
Which Java package do you have installed?
Which firefox extensions do you have installed?

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

Sorry for the delay but I've not been well.

This is warnings when you change from secure to unsecure sites. I.e. ubuntu's wiki. It has no flash/java/or extensions. this is vanilla install from the install.

The only complaint is that the message reads:

You are leaving a secure website. To be warned about this everytime check the box. (words to that effect)

If you leave the box unchecked you are warned the next time until you check the box then uncheck the box.

I hope that makes a little more sense.

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

Here is a screenshot of one of the warnings.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

anyone else can reproduce this issue?

[Steve Alexander (stevea)]

I'm seeing this issue with Firefox on Gutsy.

[Steve Alexander (stevea)]

I can still see this issue on my machine.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

can you please post a site where i can test this? Are there sites that work?

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

Alexander Sack this happens whenever you join a secure site (ie gmail.com etc) upon installing firefox. That is on a fresh install of Ubuntu you open up firefox and go to gmail.com login and you get the security warning. If you leave it unchecked it comes up everytime you login. If you check the box then uncheck it again you never see the warning again.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 06:17:29PM -0000, davmor2 wrote:
> Alexander Sack this happens whenever you join a secure site (ie
> gmail.com etc) upon installing firefox. That is on a fresh install of
> Ubuntu you open up firefox and go to gmail.com login and you get the
> security warning. If you leave it unchecked it comes up everytime you
> login. If you check the box then uncheck it again you never see the
> warning again.
>

hmm ... do you close your firefox before shutting down your
system/loggin out of X?

 - Alexander

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

Yes. Basically any warning the firefox gives is repeated until you double check the box. After that everything is fine :) So I think it is something deep inside firefox. It also happens I seem to recall with the windows version.

[Steve Alexander (stevea)]

Alexander: I very rarely close Firefox cleanly, because I want to preserve my list of tabs so that it will be restored when I restart.
I haven't found a clean way to shut down Firefox, so that the tabs I was using are restored when I restart it.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

this is not a bug on its own ... however, there is a bug about firefox not shutting down cleanly when X is just torn down. In that case your profile changes don't get synched back to disc and you end up with a bug like this. If you want to preserve your tabs for restart there exist various addons on http://addons.mozilla.org that serve that use case.