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Hi!

I have two firefox profiles.

In one of them, whem I try to access a given https site, a pop up dialog
box from ff appears. Here is a translation from pt of that message:

"You asked Firefox to connect securely to <site here>, but we can not
confirm that your connection is secure.

Usually, when you try to connect securely, sites have the security ID to
prove that you are on track. However, the identity of the site can not
be verified.

What should I do?

If you usually connect to this site regularly without problems, this
error could mean that someone is trying to pass himself off by this site
and as such you should not continue."

Then there are 3 options to choose from ...
Get me out of here
Tech. info
I understand the risk

What, in simple words, does this mean?
Why using the other profile this message does not show up?
Is it possible that each profile has its own certificates' list?
Where do these certificates come from?

I have checked security and privacy configurations and couldn't see any
diffs!

Thanks for any help.

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Security issue Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a_ns@netcabo.pt> - 2015-04-16 15:10 +0100
  Re: Security issue J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2015-04-16 21:21 +0000
    Re: Security issue Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a_ns@netcabo.pt> - 2015-04-17 01:38 +0100
      Re: Security issue J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2015-04-18 20:21 +0000
        Re: Security issue Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a_ns@netcabo.pt> - 2015-04-20 01:55 +0100
          Re: Security issue "John F" <j@j.ii> - 2015-04-22 13:36 -0700
  Re: Security issue Christian Riechers <chriechers@netscape.net.invalid> - 2015-04-18 07:52 +0200

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