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I use Firefox as my browser of choice for all of the usual reasons - security, stability, extendibility …

I recently had a problem with one of my favourite add-ons after I deleted and recreated my profile.  Foxmarks is a great utility that allows you to synchronise your bookmarks across multiple Firefox installations (study, laptop, work etc).

I use Foxmarks to sync with my WebDAV server over HTTPS.  The problem was that when I deleted my profile and tried to set up Foxmarks, I was getting “Unknown Error 8179″ when I tried to sync.  Google wasn’t helping either (hence I thought that I should post something).

The error was caused because I was using self-signed SSL certificates and I had not yet told Firefox about my own Certificate Authority.  As soon as I downloaded my CA file and set it to trusted, everything worked again.

Hope this helps you.