{"id":25083,"date":"2021-05-28T23:59:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T22:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=25083"},"modified":"2023-12-05T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T20:56:00","slug":"how-to-ignore-certificate-errors-in-your-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2021\/05\/28\/how-to-ignore-certificate-errors-in-your-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"How to ignore certificate errors in your browser"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Total refusal to visit a normal website.<\/em><\/p>\n

This common Web browser problem is usually related to only a handful of sites and is incredibly difficult to troubleshoot, and for most people will be impossible to fix. I tried everything, and I know Windows and browsers inside-out. Nothing worked. <\/p>\n

The ‘nuclear’ cure, which works with Opera and apparently other Chrome-based browsers, is then to simply add the following to your browser icon’s launch path. This path is found by right-clicking on the launch-icon and then looking in its Properties path. No more problems, if you add there…<\/p>\n

-ignore-certificate-errors<\/em><\/p>\n

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This needs to applied after<\/em> the shortcut has been pinned to the TaskBar, not before.<\/p>\n

The site will now load fine. Tested and working with the Opera browser and theguardian .com<\/p>\n

Obviously this will not be the same browser you use for Internet banking, PayPal etc. Or in such cases you will at least launch the same browser from another un-fixed launch icon.<\/p>\n

The alternative is to switch from Chrome to the Pale Moon browser. Pale Moon, being based on Firefox, uses its own certificate store rather than relying on that of Windows. I don’t know of any way to have Chrome do the same.<\/p>\n

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Update, December 2023: this old post takes on a wider significance…<\/p>\n

“Proposed EU legislation gives European governments the ability to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks against secured web communications (i.e. https). It would be illegal for browser makers to reject certificates compromised by governments.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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