I have downloaded the beta of Firefox 3 to check out the improvements related to SSL. First, there's the added support for Extended Validation SSL certificates, but I am not very excited about that (I wrote about this previously in Extended Validation SSL certificates not going anywhere, as predicted). It's a nice feature, but it's not going to bring much good overall. On the other hand, I am very happy with the improvements to the handling of invalid SSL certificates.

Firefox 2.x allows users to simply click-through their way to a site that uses an invalid certificate. There is a warning of some sort, but who reads warnings anyway? (Internet Explorer is not much better in this respect, although at least its warning is very clear about not recommending the user to proceed.)

With Firefox 3.x, the situation is much better. First you get the same style of error response as you would for any other network problem:

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