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I have a problem with ubuntu desktop 14.04. When executing firefox without sudo, then all the https sites (even http://google.com) gives me

Error code: sec_error_library_failure

But when executing from the terminal sudo firefox, then it's all fine and all the https webpages load without a problem.

I'm guessing it a file ownership issue somewhere, but I cannot figure out (even with googles help) where it is located. I've tried to chown every directory and file to the specific user where Firefox is located (with the help of "whereis firefox" command) but still no help.

Am I missing something here?

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I just encountered this same issue, and resolved it without refreshing Firefox. I noticed that in my Firefox profile, all files were still owned by me, except revocations.txt (now owned by root).

Try running:

find .mozilla/firefox/ -user root

If you find the same results I did, chown revocations.txt back to your user account:

sudo chown user:user .mozilla/firefox/profile.default/revocations.txt

Hope this helps.

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  • Thanks this helped me a lot, I couldn't figure out what it was!
    – ToX 82
    Jan 11, 2016 at 12:28
  • Thanks @square! Thanks to you I understand the reason of my issue. First I thought that this is not my case and I was sure owner of all firefox profile's files was my user but not the root. But then I remember that earlier I ran sudo webpack --watch when doing some programming job and my app also had browsersync which started firefox browser on initialization. So yes, browser was started under the root, created some files with root owner and then when I tried to open it under the my user I got the error Secure Connection Failed SEC_ERROR_LIBRARY_FAILURE!
    – gorodezkiy
    Aug 11, 2016 at 16:24
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https://support.mozilla.org/ru/questions/1058797 To Refresh Firefox:

Open the Troubleshooting Information page using one of these methods: Click the menu button  , click help  and select Troubleshooting Information. A new tab containing your troubleshooting information should open. If you're unable to access the Help menu, type about:support in your address bar to bring up the Troubleshooting Information page. At the top right corner of the page, you should see a button that says "Refresh Firefox" ("Reset Firefox" in older Firefox versions). Click on it. Firefox will close. After the refresh process is completed, Firefox will show a window with the information that is imported. Click Finish and Firefox will reopen. Did this fix the problem? Please report back to us!

Thank you.

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