Firefox 29 Problem

BakerT

Hi.

When trying to connect(after loggin in to the OpenVPN site) to the VPN connection with Firefox 29 it never seems to "activate" the OpenVPN client that is installed on the computer.

Does anyone else have this problem with Firefox 29?

It works with IE, Chrome, Safari on both mac and windows

Thanks

BakerT

Im using OpenVPN Connect 2.0.7.100 (Client)
Server Running 2.0.7

BakerT

Might have misunderstood your question.

Im running OpenVPN AS.

tcarroll

I'm having the exact same issue. Did you find a resolution?

FrankM

TBH, I think it started before FF29 - I think it was FF19
At some point, the Firefox developers decided to go slightly insane with security. I had a ticket open (GXU-677052) and quoting from that, "Firefox is at the forefront of adjusting security settings with SSL, XSS, and CSRF, and we believe this may be the cause. We're not sure how to resolve this yet, so, we'll just have to dig into it."

In short, you (and I) are out of luck. I can live with installing through IE/Chrome and then using the system tray icon. No, I won't switch to IE or Chrome 😉

The interesting part is that an old(er) machine of mine that was upgraded through older versions of FF still behaves as expected.