Firefox 32 supports Public Key Pinning

Public Key Pinning helps ensure that people are connecting to the sites they intend. Pinning allows site operators to specify which certificate authorities (CAs) issue valid certificates for them, rather than accepting any one of the hundreds of built-in root certificates that ship with Firefox. If any certificate in the verified certificate chain corresponds to one of the known good certificates, Firefox displays the lock icon as normal.

Pinning helps protect users from man-in-the-middle-attacks and rogue certificate authorities. When the root cert for a pinned site does not match one of the known good CAs, Firefox will reject the connection with a pinning error. This type of error can also occur if a CA mis-issues a certificate.

Pinning errors can be transient. For example, if a person is signing into WiFi, they may see an error like the one below when visiting a pinned site. The error should disappear if the person reloads after the WiFi access is setup.

Firefox 32 and above supports built-in pins, which means that the list of acceptable certificate authorities must be set at time of build for each pinned domain. Pinning is enforced by default. Sites may advertise their support for pinning with the Public Key Pinning Extension for HTTP, which we hope to implement soon. Pinned domains include addons.mozilla.org and Twitter in Firefox 32, and Google domains in Firefox 33, with more domains to come. That means that Firefox users can visit Mozilla, Twitter and Google domains more safely. For the full list of pinned domains and rollout status, please see the Public Key Pinning wiki.

Thanks to Camilo Viecco for the initial implementation and David Keeler for many reviews!