Maybe somone can explain what Apple’s idea of changing the keystore password from “changeit” to a radically different and cryptographically strong “changeme” is, except for the obvious goal of wasting my time having to google for it.

So yeah, here’s how you import that self-signed certificate that you need:

sudo keytool -import -alias some.host.com -keystore /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Home/lib/security/cacerts -file mycert.crt

One day Firefox 3.0.8 started randomly crashing on me, and some other folks as well. It is not possible to remember anymore whether there was a system crash / kernel panic / unclean shutdown beforehand. PanicReporter does show one for Mar 10, 2009, which actually sets the timeline for this problem up quite well.
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