Is IE8 not trustable, or is Firefox 4.x buggy?

[VirtualLarry]

I have Firefox 4.0beta3 installed in Win7 HP 64-bit, and set as my default browser.

I downloaded the ISO of MS Visual Studio Express 2010 (free from MS), and installed VC++. You have to register it within 30 days, in order to continue using it. There is a menu option to register it, which goes to an MS web page.

Using Firefox 4.x, when I click that link, I get a page that says the connection is not trusted, and prompts me to create an exception, if I tell it to continue.

Starting up IE8, and telling it to make itself the default browser, then clicking that link in VC++, loads up a page, HTTPS, and doesn't say anything about the connection being untrusted.

Does IE8 load untrusted connections, without issuing a proper warning? This could be serious, millions of people use it every day.

 

[stlcardinals]

I can browse to http://www.microsoft.com/express/ and put https in and both Chrome and IE8 do not like the certificate on my computer. IE8 did not like the certificate the first time i went there, after closing IE8 and browsing back to it, it does not complain about it.

 

[MrChad]

Don't IE8 and Firefox use different trusted certificate keystores?

 

[VirtualLarry]

I'm not talking about MS's express web site where you download the tools, I'm talking about the link that clicking on the "Register" menu item in the software itself redirects.

 

[stlcardinals]

I'm not talking about MS's express web site where you download the tools, I'm talking about the link that clicking on the "Register" menu item in the software itself redirects.

Well, all of the registration links on the right hand side of this page show Green (Highly Trusted) SSL connections in both IE8 and Chrome.

http://www.microsoft.com/express/support/regins/