10-12-2022 04:50 AM
When using firefox behind zscaler you get a lot of certificate problems because zscaler performs interception on the web pages, it would be nice to make it work nicely when this tool or simliar tools for enterpise are in use.
10-13-2022 12:51 PM
Generally speaking, users and administrators have two options:
(1) Let Firefox continue to use its own certificate store, and manually import the proxy server's signing certificate into Firefox as a valid authority so that the fake certificates are treated as genuine.
For the end user, there are multiple steps that aren't well documented.* For administrators, there is a Group Policy option, but I don't know how easy it is to deploy (https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates#certificates--install).
* Example support thread: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1199797#answer-1064849
(2) Switch Firefox to using the system certificate store.
There is a preference for this in about:config (security.enterprise_roots.enabled) and a Group Policy (https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates#certificates--importenterpriseroots)
Some consumer security software (e.g., Avast) inserts a policy to reduce support issues. Of course, when users see on their Settings page that their organization is controlling some of their settings, it becomes a support issue for Mozilla...
10-13-2022 01:01 PM
Neither of these options work with zscaler
10-13-2022 06:24 PM
What error message are you getting -- please click the Advanced button and copy/paste from there.
Also, can you confirm that the ZScaler proxy certificate is in the Windows certificate store used by Edge and Chrome?
10-18-2022 12:56 PM
Actually you are correct, that setting sorts the issue, thanks for your help, confirmed on the main network and on VPN