169212 - Cannot delete security certificates from the "Web Sites" tab

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Dan Rue]

Cannot delete security certificates from the "Web Sites" tab but I can delete
from the "Authorities" tab.  This is in Manage Certificates.  When I click on
delete, it does not do anything.  This is version 1.1 final (the only version
available is other for me to click on).

Comment 1

[Doug]

I am having the same problem.  Preferences -> Privacy & Security -> Certificates
-> Manage Certificates -> Web Sites.  Select a self-signed certificate and click
the Delete button, click the "Ok" button in the confirmation dialog, certificate
isn't deleted.  The behaviour is exactly the same as if I had clicked the
"Cancel" button.  I even tried exiting mozilla just in case the cert was
actually deleted but just wasn't displaying the information correctly.  But no,
it's still saved.

Comment 2

[Doug]

Oh - and I'm also on 1.1 final, on Windows (2K).

Comment 3

[Maarten Bukkems]

I can confirm this on Mozilla 1.1 / Windows98SE

Comment 4

[Bart Massey]

Me too.

Comment 5

[[e-mail]]

Could confirm this for
Mozilla 1.1 (Windows XP, Linux)
Mozilla 1.0.1 (Linux)
Mozilla 1.2b (Windows XP)

For outdated Mozilla 0.9.8 deleting a "Site-Certificate" works.

Comment 6

[Mate]

I believe this is a serious bug as it is a loss of functionality with no
workaround. As I have to test certificate installations I will have to stop
using Mozilla 1.1 and Netscape 7. Netscape 4 works and so embarrassingly does,
shudder, Internet Exploiter.

Comment 7

[Russ Petruzzelli]

I am using Mozilla 1.1

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020827

on Solaris 8.  I am having the same problem.  
ie:  Cannot delete website certificate.  
The cert in question is a test cert in a test environment...in case that matters.  

Comment 8

[Russ Petruzzelli]

My company also has netscape 6.2.2 available to me.  Mozilla and netscape share
my same profile in my home directory.  I was able to delete the website cert
using netscape.  When I went back to mozilla, it was gone.

Comment 9

[Greg Ubben]

Confirmed with Netscape 7.0 on Solaris 2.7.  Should there be an
OK button on the Certificate Manager window perhaps, vice just closing
the window when done?

Also saw one case where the line wouldn't even visibly delete after
OK'ing out of the "Delete CA Certificates" dialog.  This was
reproducible for this particular profile.  But this was a case where
I'd copied my migrated 4.7 cert7.db to defaults/profile/US then
created a new profile with this, so maybe that doesn't work...

Comment 10

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Mass reassign of my non-Firefox bugs to [e-mail]

Comment 11

[Pierre]

I have the same problem with Firefox 2.0.0.6 and Gran Paradiso 3 Alpha7 running on Windows XP SP2

Comment 12

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(Filter "spam" on 'prefs-nobody-20080612'.)

Comment 13

[:Cykesiopka]

I'm resolving this as WFM because the UI for managing certs has changed quite a bit from the Firefox 2 era, and deleting certs in UI in recent versions of Firefox, SeaMonkey etc seems to work fine.

Please file a new bug if you're getting issues on a modern version of Firefox etc.