Never mind: Firefox recommends that you don't enter your password

[Dave Howorth]

On 2016-03-10 14:24, Dave Howorth wrote:
> I just updated an Ubuntu 12.04 machine and the update included Firefox 45.
>
> The first thing I then tried to do was to log in to our shared systems
> at work, and Firefox said:
>
> "Firefox recommends that you don't enter your password,
> credit card and other personal information on this
> website"
>
> With a button labelled "Don't Trust This Website" alongside.
>
> Clearly that's not an option for a $work system, so I'd like to
> understand why it is making that suggestion.
>
> There doesn't seem to be anything in the help or on the intertubes.

Never mind. I understand why now. It's an [apparently new] message that 
is just telling me to look at the connection information about the site.

And I know very well that the connection information says that the site 
is insecure, since I had to set options ages ago to even let Firefox 
talk to the site because it's so out of date. So why it thinks it now 
needs to warn me about something I explicitly set up is beyond me. And 
why the site is still insecure is beyond me, but it's the government so 
I expect they know best.

Cheers, Dave