Firefox reader says "site not secure" with HTTPS

[blackberry@midwest.social]

if I go to an HTTPS site and it has a reader option, this is shown. it happens on every site. thoughts?

Android Firefox

[jasn_de@lemmy.world]

So what's the problem according to FF?

[blackberry@midwest.social]

browsing the site: "connection is secure" https cert signed by whoever

browsing the reader option: "connection is not secure"

[morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de]

The website itself doesn't seem to have a problem with its certificate: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.fosslinux.com&s=155.138.208.156&latest=

it might be related to the root certificates available on your device. you might be able to click the barred icon and read details about the error that's encountered

[merde@sh.itjust.works]

"connection is not secure"

you can "enable in all tabs" "HTTPS-Only mode", if that bothers you

[donuts@lemmy.world]

Apparently it's because it's using a self signed certificate, but I'm having trouble finding exact sources that confirm this.

[lemmchen@feddit.org]

Check your time and date.

[bakedcatboy@lemmy.ml]

There's a ticket in the Firefox bug tracker that appears to be tracking this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1913601

Makes sense, because even in reader mode it shows https, and the issue happens on other major sites like Wikipedia.

[darkassassin07@lemmy.ca]

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/pull/16545

Reader mode loads the page from a local copy cached from the non-reader mode connection; via localhost, which doesn't support https. (or rather, uses a self-signed cert which appears insecure). As this connection is entirely internal to the device, proper https isn't necessary.

Later versions of the app will hide that icon in reader mode, but it doesn't look like that's made it to android/ios yet.

[trickdacy@lemmy.world]

Did you check the system clock for accuracy?