Modern Chrome and Firefox browsers are capable of blocking websites they deem dangerous. It often happens to open a website, perhaps from a link on Facebook or even from a search on Google, and see a red page with written details of the risks that can be taken by visiting this site.
Sometimes these warnings are very useful and legitimate, blocking internet browsing when it is directed to a dangerous site.
Other times, however, it may happen that a normally good and also quite popular site is blocked with a red page of danger.
In these cases, the site administrator may have suffered a hacker attack or made a mistake by uploading some file considered harmful.
In any case, it is useful to know how to overcome the protection of Firefox and Chrome when a site is blocked with the red page of danger.
In both Chrome and Firefox, the warning is displayed when the site is suspected of phishing or if it contains malware .
The alert has a very obvious button to return to the protected area and abandon that site, which seems to be the only option available.
in Chrome there is also a link to see the details of the problem while in Firefox you can click the Why button to find out what happened with that blocked site.
I had already written about Chrome's safe browsing settings.
For Firefox, the discussion is very similar and the dangerous sites are divided into malicious sites, fake sites and sites with dangerous software.
To open that site anyway, in Chrome you have to click on the link visit this unsafe site which is located under the details.
In Firefox instead the link is visible, in small, on the right side of the red box where " Ignore warning " is written.
Firefox, once ignored the warning, allows you to mark that site as not counterfeit or to close it immediately before there are problems.
To test these warnings there are two sample pages, one for Chrome and one for Firefox.
Although not recommended, you can always disable the website security check in the settings.
In Chrome the option is in the general settings, under the advanced settings in the Privacy section.
In Firefox, however, the option is found in the security options.
Another type of error that blocks navigation is related to the https security certificate.
Sometimes you can open a site and see that the browser shows an error page regarding the security certificate, something that can scare you as if it were dangerous.
We talked about the problems in the https security certificate and also explained how to continue browsing.
