1047901 - The "security.use_mozillapkix_verification" is missing in the "about:config" panel

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Emanuele Magagnino]

Attachment: screen_mozillaaurora.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140802004001

Steps to reproduce:

Opened "about:config", used the search function.


Actual results:

Searched for the "security.use_mozillapkix_verification", didn't find it. It's not present in the values listed there.


Expected results:

Please, refer to this ticket in the "Support Forum" with answers by the community: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1013741#answer-611365

Comment 1

[Loic]

Wiki:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/SecurityEngineering/Certificate_Verification#Choosing_your_Verification_Library

Sometimes, you need to create yourself the variable, maybe that's the case here.

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

It is no longer in use on Firefox 33 - it is only available on Firefox 31 and 32. NSS-based verification was removed in bug 975229.