Update for "Improving the cert-error pages for Firefox" [Outreachy project, 2018]
Trisha Gupta
Hello all,
I am Trisha Gupta (:trisha), an Outreachy intern for the summer cohort. I have been working on improving the certificate error pages for Firefox along with my mentor, Johann Hofmann (:johannh).
I am extremely pleased to inform you that we have enabled the new cert-error pages by default in Nightly, and we plan to let them ride the trains with Firefox 64.
Project meta bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1463693
The project aimed at: changing the design and copy of the certificate error pages. We also added a clock skew error page for when we are 100% sure about there being a system clock error.
We also had some button behavior changes. For instance, changing the behavior of the “Add exception” button where earlier, a dialog opened up and then could the user add exception. Whereas now, by simply clicking on “Accept the Risk and Add Exception” the user can add an exception to the site.
To revert to the old certificate error experience, you can flip the “browser.security.newcerterrorpage.enabled” pref to false, for now. We plan to remove this pref eventually.
We hope that the new pages are more informative about the error and will enable the user to make an informed browsing choice for an unsafe URL.
The project tasks were as follows:
Fork and pref-off the new cert-error pages: 1463748
Updating the design of the certificate error pages: 1463755
Changing the copy of the certificate error pages: 1463759
Implementing a new clock skew error page: 1476509
Change the “Add Exception” button behavior: 1474820
Update the “Advanced…” button: 1477313
Enable the new cert-error pages by default in Nightly: 1477310
We also had some meetings where we have planned to add telemetry for these error pages. This will give us a better idea about how our changes affected the users’ choice to choose safer options. For instance, the clock skew error page is a new page and we would love to see telemetry responses for that!
Today’s officially the last day of my Outreachy internship, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank my mentor, everyone else involved with the project, and the Mozilla community for being extremely helpful. I learnt a lot from this internship and I hope to stick around with Mozilla in future!
Thanks,
Trisha Gupta
Chris Peterson
People can check them out using the badssl.com test site:
https://badssl.com/
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