Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Firefox2 and SSL2

Recently I upgraded my Fedora Core 6 to Fedora 7. It has some cool features which makes it a perfect desktop. One of the notable features is the inclusion of Firefox 2.0. But when I accessed some of the old websites which uses SSL 2.0 for security, it simply denied the access. I googled and found the solution from MozillaZine.

By default, Firefox2 uses SSL 3.0 and has disabled SSL2.0 support. You cannot enable SSl2.0 from the Preferences menu, instead you have to type the following address in the location bar
about:config
Find the following Preference Name
security.ssl2.des_64
security.ssl2.des_ede3_192
security.ssl2.rc2_128
security.ssl2.rc2_40
security.ssl2.rc4_128
security.ssl2.rc4_40
Right Click on these names and toggle it so that the value becomes true.
Now you can browse your old websites with Firefox 2.0.