Websites don’t open or ads aren’t blocked in Firefox
AdGuard for Mac installs a root certificate to filter HTTPS traffic. In most cases, this happens automatically when you first launch the app.
However, Firefox and other Gecko-based browsers use their own certificate storage. If you have a master password set in Firefox, the certificate may not be installed automatically. As a result, web pages may fail to open.
To fix this, you can:
Enter your master password when prompted by Firefox
Install the certificate manually
To install the certificate manually:
Open Settings in Firefox.
Go to Privacy & Security → Certificates.
Click View Certificates.
Open the Authorities tab and click Import….
Select the file:
/Library/Application Support/AdGuard Software/com.adguard.mac.adguard/AdguardCore/Adguard Personal CA.cerAlternatively, you can download the certificate from
http://local.adguard.org/cert using a Chromium-based browser (for example, Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge) while HTTPS filtering is enabled in AdGuard.After installing the certificate, pages should open normally.
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