Tech help please

[mburner]

All of a sudden the latest version of Firefox is not opening up one of the better known "dating" sites whose 3-letter acronym starts with T, saying "because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified." How do I rectify this? Plus, in trying to see if Safari would work, the name of the site got stuck forever it seems in the autocomplete of its google search bar. How do I remove it? For the record, Safari didn't work with the T site either. Thanks for your help.

 

[huckfinn]

Could it have to do with your security settings, or an anti-virus program you have installed?

 

[mburner]

Perhaps. I think something happens to Firefox and its ability to open certain sites (regardless of content) every time an updated version is installed. I'm not tech savvy at all. More a literary type, professionally and by preference. Hence, even when reading through solutions I get lost. So many of them. And so many don't work.

 

[SkyRider]

I ran into problems sometimes trying to do banking transactions using Firefox. Switched to Chrome instead.

 

[Geee]

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1068417

 

[mburner]

Thanks everyone for your help. With some hit and miss, doing this and that with Firefox, it seems to have resolved itself, though I don't know exactly what I did. Furthermore, when i did get back on the T** site, there was a discussion thread from yesterday with many others saying they had had the same problem Thursday with different browsers. Still unresolved is the history of searches locked into the Safari search box. It's there even history is cleared. if I were to type in terb, no sooner do I enter te before it shows terb in the pulldown. Suggestions, again? And Geee, thanks for that link. Must admit, the tech lingo really throws me though.

 

[cryptic]

All of a sudden the latest version of Firefox is not opening up one of the better known "dating" sites whose 3-letter acronym starts with T, saying "because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified." How do I rectify this? Plus, in trying to see if Safari would work, the name of the site got stuck forever it seems in the autocomplete of its google search bar. How do I remove it? For the record, Safari didn't work with the T site either. Thanks for your help.

Likely due to this: http://www.darkreading.com/risk/tho...ed-insecure-due-to-cert-error-/d/d-id/1327192

TL;DR: The dating site used a secure website (https) certificate provider that fucked up. The fix was either wait it out or run a very technical command.