Closed Bug 783968 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

Certificate errors are too intrusive

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Security
Version:
14 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 487498

People

(Reporter: mail, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1 Build ID: 20120713224749 Steps to reproduce: Connecting to a mail server that delivers an untrusted (not CA-signed) certificate due to server misconfiguration. Actual results: The certificate error dialog pops up (which is good). I click it away. It pops up AGAIN. AND AGAIN. AND AGAIN. After 5 times, it stays away, but returns every 10 minutes. Leaving the computer unattended for an hour produces another useless series of pop-up-and-click-away. Expected results: Thunderbird should have displayed the window ONCE. After clicking "Cancel" there, it should NOT pop up immediately again. These errors should not be stacked; there should be a maximum of ONE such error at a time.
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Component: General → Security
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Note that this issue in contrast to bug 487498 is not talking about an *infinite* loop; the messages stack finitely (e.g. 6 popups).
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