Firefox 3 is becoming a problem for students accessing our resources as it has tightened up on security and presents an error message when it detects a conflict between security certificates found on websites. As yet, we do not have Firefox 3 on our machines so you won’t see what is happening when a student presents the problem.

Peter K has produced a page outlining these Security Certificate Issues. It is linked from the Databases Troubleshooting page, which is found on the Databases page under the Help with Using Databases heading (see Database problems).

Remember, there is no security risk in using Library databases, so any worried students can be safely reassured.

Deirdre