"User id not found" after verifying the Key with gmail in Firefox about keyserver

[skriesch]

This issue exists on other Linux distributions like Ubuntu, too.

[toberndo]

The verification link works only once, so after you have verified a certain email address, a subsequent click on the verification link will lead to the "User id not found" message. Could it be that this happened in your case?
Probably we should distinguish the "not found" case from the "already verified" case and provide a more meaningful message.

[skriesch]

No. I wanted to verify my email address and wanted to accept the verification link once. It forwarded me to "User id not found". You can test it with Linux distributions like Ubuntu and openSUSE. Other people had the same issue in our group.
After that I tried it with Chromium, created a new key pair and the verification has worked there (same procedure).

[daudo]

confirming this behaviour as well. Opening the confirmation link in FF 66.0.3 in Manjaro Linux doesn't work ("User id not found"), whereas it works flawlessly when I try the same in chrome/chromium.

[Volker-K]

Same behaviour here, the key can't have been confirmed before, otherwise it would be found on the key server.
Doesn't matter if the key was uploaded via the plugin or manually on the website. Happend with several keys and mail addresses.

[stradarius]

With Firefox 89.0.2 64bit on Linux Mint I cannot reproduce this error - neither with the demo-server nor with the current code in a local deployment. Works as expected.

[nichoio]

confirming this behaviour as well. Opening the confirmation link in FF 66.0.3 in Manjaro Linux doesn't work ("User id not found"), whereas it works flawlessly when I try the same in chrome/chromium.

Basically this in my case as well. FF 89.0 (64-bit) on Manjaro gives me this error, Chromium doesn't.