Firefox sayst billing.microsoft.com uses an invalid security certificate
I'm trying to close out my hotmail account, but when I try to access billing.microsoft.com, Firefox says that page is using an invalid security certificate because the issuer certificate is unknown, and warns me not to proceed by creating an exception
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The certificate provided is indeed invalid. It is signed by Microsoft themselves, not a trusted certificate authority.
Apart from that ,latest Google Chrome has the same error message.
This is a root certificate which serves as a website certificate at the same time. This is an oddity, since in all other cases (that I know), you have a root certificate which signs a website certificate.
I wrote more about this at http://certwatch.simos.info/2010/08/0.../the-new-billing-microsoft-com-root-certificate/
It is related to browser settings do,
Firefox -> Tools -> Advanced -> view certificates -> servers -> Add exceptions
and add the your url in that dialogue box.