You can get browsers (and other programs that use libnss3) to use the system-wide trust
store (i.e., /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt) if you install p11-kit and run:
# dpkg-divert --add --local --rename /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/nss/libnssckbi.so
# ln -srf /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkcs11/p11-kit-trust.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/nss/libnssckbi.so
You can undo it by removing the symlink and then running 'dpkg-divert --remove
--rename /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/nss/libnssckbi.so'.
There was a discussion on the Debian BTS about doing this by default at
<
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704180> but it never actually
happened.
I think this is already done by default in the Red Hat world.
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