Op 30/08/2020 om 18:23 schreef Kenneth:
> Thorsten <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Ehm, the web news interface does not use HTTPS. It uses plain HTTP and
>> works in the current Firefox without problems.
>>
> 
> Hmm, then there is a mystery somewhere ;-)
> 
> The URL I see when I go to the 'main'(?) newsgroups page (the one I always
> access) is this...
> 
> https://news.povray.org/groups/
> 
> ....uh, not HTTP.
> 
> I'm currently running the latest Firefox update, that I downloaded several days
> ago-- v80.0 -- which blocked that newsgroups page, with the warning I mentioned
> earlier (that is, until I instructed Firefox to 'roll back' to the older
> security protocols).
> 

The problem started a few Firefox updates ago. I have the same issue as 
you and the solution(?) indeed is to switch to http instead of https. 
You probably bookmarked the newsgroups as https in an earlier stage; it 
is what happened to me.

-- 
Thomas

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