Do you experience the annoying “SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER” error in Firefox? If you see the error: SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER in Firefox, then Firefox tries to connect to a website that is not configured properly and only accepts HTST (HTTP Strict Transport Security) connections.
As a results it not possible to add an exception for this certificate.
In this article, I will give you instructions on how to fix the SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER error in Firefox.
Read on and follow the step-by-step instructions.
How to fix SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER error in Mozilla Firefox
Open the Firefox browser, in the address – navigation – bar type: about:config. Accept the risk and continue to the configuration settings in Firefox.
Search for value: security.enterprise_roots.enabled. Change security.enterprise_roots.enabled setting from False to True by double-clicking the security.enterprise_roots.enabled setting.
As you see it is fairly simple to fix the SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER error message in Firefox. But hey! Who doesn’t like simple fixes?
Reload the website you were getting the SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER from and try again. The SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER error in Firefox is now gone!
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