Firefox can't store permanent security exceptions.

I'm using Firefox 3.16.12 (user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3)
When I try to add security exception for self-signed certificate - I have the same problem as it seen on this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WatBXY5CxO0
Temporary exceptions are stored without any problems.

Found solution for this problem here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=1160375&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
It seems, that something was wrong with cert_override.txt , cert8.db from profile folder. Deleting those file helps.

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