"Secure Connection Failed"
Have been getting the "Secure Connection Failed" clicking on google search hits - simple as clicking on the first hit of "wiki wordle" google search would trigger this error.
OS Edition Windows 10 Pro Version 20H2 Installed on Tue 20 11 10 OS build 19042.1466
Firefox 96.0 as of 2022-01-13
Error: Secure Connection Failed
Error info: An error occurred during a connection to www.google.com. SSL peer was not expecting a handshake message it received. Error code: SSL_ERROR_HANDSHAKE_UNEXPECTED_ALERT
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
All Replies (2)
You can try to disable DNS over HTTPS.
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dns-over-https-doh-faqs
You can check the connection settings.
- Settings -> General -> Network: Connection -> Settings
If you do not need to use a proxy to connect to internet then try to select "No Proxy" if "Use the system proxy settings" or one of the others do not work properly.
See "Firefox connection settings":
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/websites-dont-load-troubleshoot-and-fix-errors
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-cant-load-websites-other-browsers-can
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-and-other-browsers-cant-load-websites
See also:
Thanks for the quick reply, much appreciated.
I tried changing the Proxy setting to "none" and it helped for a few minutes and then I got the same error.
What I finally did to fix the problem was to remove all my *google* domain's cookies and data. Had to re-login and lost all the auto-fill data; but I can click on the google search hits and without hitting the error.
Must've been something to do with this month's Windows Tuesday Update, my guess.
Thanks, Rudy