Firebird – Things they left out

Yesterday I finally got a cable broadband connection installed. This meant setting up an old PC with Smoothwall to act as a dedicated firewall. All went pretty well, but initially I couldn't get my internet connection through the Smoothwall machine, so I reinstalled Smoothwall. Turns out that Smoothwall wasn't the problem - the problem was that in switching the cable modem from one machine to the Smoothwall machine I hadn't turned off the modem, waited a couple of minutes for it to forget the MAC address and switch on again. Anyway, when I reinstalled Smoothwall, Firebird complained about the new certificate it got sent. I needed to get rid of the existing certificate in order to be able to accept the new one. However, Firebird doesn't have the facility to manage certificates ... UNLESS you install an extension called:

Things They Left Out

You can install TTLO from
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/ttlo

After install and restarting Firebird, you get a More Options option in the Tools menu. I opened this up and deleted the existing Smoothwall certificate. Then, when I tried to get to the config pages on my Smoothwall machine up popped the dialog box asking me if I wanted to accept the certificate that was being offered.

Sweet!

Incidentally, the Extension Room web site is very nicely designed. I must try to improve the look of ITauthor.com when I've got some time. The Extension Room design is simple, clean and effective, but stylish with it, I think.