Firefox 4.0 cannot establish secure connections with banking sites like bank of america.

After authentication, the connection is reset and the page fails to load. Or, it takes a very long time to establish the session. Earlier versions of ffx didn't have this problem and IE access these site just fine at the same time when ffx fails.

I had the exact problem. It seems when connecting from firefox i was getting directed to onlineeast2 and then the connection would reset. When connecting from IE i was getting directed to onlineeast3 and the connection was fine. So I edited my hosts file to force onlineeast2 to resolve to the ip address of onlineeast3. This is working for me. here is what i put in my hosts file:
171.159.66.159 onlineeast2.bankofamerica.com
171.159.66.159 onlineeast3.bankofamerica.com
The hosts file can be found here:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

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