Firefox 43.0.4 re-enables SHA1 certificates

Well, that didn’t last long. Firefox 43.0.3 disabled SHA1 security certificates, but that caused a lot of problems for some users, and Mozilla has rolled back the change in the new Firefox 43.0.4. Most users won’t notice the difference, but if you started having problems browsing secure web sites after installing 43.0.3, that issue should be resolved with 43.0.4.

Firefox 43.0.4 also fixes a crashing bug affecting some users, and at least one other change is documented in the release notes.

Incidentally, there wasn’t a proper announcement for the new version. The closest we got was a post on the Mozilla security blog about the SHA1 reversal, which doesn’t mention Firefox version identifiers at all.

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Jeff Rivett has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s. His first computer was an Apple II+, built by his father and heavily customized. Jeff's writing appeared in Computist Magazine in the 1980s, and he created and sold a game utility (Ultimaker 2, reviewed in the December 1983 Washington Apple Pi Journal) to international markets during the same period. Proceeds from writing, software sales, and contract programming gigs paid his way through university, earning him a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree at UWO. Jeff went on to work as a programmer, sysadmin, and manager in various industries. There's more on the About page, and on the Jeff Rivett Consulting site.

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