Just a wild guess: If you click on "edit trust" on the root certificate in 
Firefox, you have to tick the box for web server certificates.

cheers
Mat

On Friday 04. October 2013 21:29:57 you wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> there exists a self signed root CA certificate (A)
> one intermediate CA certificate (B)
> and this intermedia certificate has signed a SSL certificate (C) of a
> web server;
> 
> the SSL certificate has in its 'Authority Information Access' extension
> the URL to the
> intermediate CA certificate, and the intermediate CA certificate has in
> this extension the URL to the root CA certificate;
> every certificate is stored in DER format;
> 
> in case the certificate database of the browser has only the root CA
> certificate and I surf to this webserver
> which itself sends the whole certificate chain; why does this work
> without errors only in IE, and not in FireFox?
> 
> if the root CA certificate is a built-in token; then this works in
> Firefox, too;
> 
> why this strange behaviour?
> 
> Thanks,
> Walter
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