How to import the digital certificate on your computer

How to import the digital certificate on your computer

If you want to carry out virtual operations and procedures in government agencies such as the Tax Agency or the Social Security Agency, you will need the corresponding digital certificate. Obtaining it is a simple thing, and importing it to the computer is even more so. However, there are many doubts about it, and on this occasion we are talking about the latter, which is how to import the digital certificate on a computer.

Next, we see how to import the certificate through two of the most used and popular web browsers in the world, which are Google Chrome and Firefox. In this way, you can carry out the process with the one of your choice. Now, without further ado, let's get to the heart of the matter.

On many occasions, to install a certificate on the computer, it is only necessary to click on it twice, so that it is installed in the operating system (Windows, for example). However, sometimes it is necessary to carry out some extra steps that are somewhat more manual, and for thator you can use both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, since with both they can be easily imported to later access different government pages and identify ourselves properly to carry out certain legal procedures.

How to import a digital certificate on the computer with Google Chrome

import digital certificate with chrome

We start with Google Chrome. First of all, you have to install Chrome on your computer; If you don't have it, you can download it via this link, then open it and perform the following steps:

  1. Open Chrome on your computer.
  2. Starting from the fact that the digital certificate has already been downloaded, you have to click on the three-dot button that is located in the upper right corner of the screen, the one just below the "Close" button. This will bring up the browser options menu.
  3. Subsequently, look for the "Settings" entry, and then click on it and enter the Chrome settings section.
  4. The next thing to do is go to “Security and privacy”, a box that appears in the left menu panel of the screen.
  5. Then you have to click on the entry of "Security".
  6. In the penultimate option of the "Security" section, there is a box called "Manage certificates", which is where you have to enter to take a look at the certificates previously downloaded and installed on the computer. In this "Manage certificates" window there are several tabs (Personal, Other people, Intermediary certification entities...), and in each of these there are certain types of digital certificates.
  7. Now, in the same “Manage certificates” window, Click on the “Import…” button. This will bring up a new window, which is the digital certificate import wizard.
  8. Once the wizard to import certificates is open, follow the steps indicated, and then select the store or place where you want to catalog the previously chosen digital certificate. After having finished the process correctly, the certificate will have already been installed and imported on the computer, without further ado.

If, on the other hand, you want to export a digital certificate, you can do so through the “Manage certificates” section already detailed, with the difference that the digital certificate in question must be selected so that the “Export…” option appears enabled. Then you have to start the export wizard and follow the steps indicated by it.

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How to import a digital certificate on the computer with Mozilla Firefox

import digital certificate with firefox

With Mozilla Firefox it is also very easy to import a digital certificate on your computer; in fact, the procedure to follow is very similar to that of Chrome and other browsers. You simply have to perform the following steps indicated below:

  1. First of all, you must have Firefox installed on your computer. If you don't have it, you can download it via this link, and then install it by clicking on the installation file.
  2. Now, with Firefox from Mozilla installed on the computer, you have to open it, and then click on the button with the three horizontal lines that appears in the upper right corner of the screen, just below the "Close" button, which is the one with the "X".
  3. Then, in the options menu that has been displayed, the entry of «Settings», which is where you need to click.
  4. Already in the "Settings" section, you have to click on the “Privacy and security” entry, found in the left panel menu.
  5. Now, the next thing to do is go down almost to the bottom to find the certificates section. In this section, click on the button «See certificates…». This will bring up a new window that will show all the certificates installed in the browser and classified by categories (Your certificates, Authorities, Servers, People...).
  6. Then you have to click on the “Import…” button. Another window will open again; this time it's about the file browser. In this you have to look for the file or the digital certificates that you want to import in the browser, to later use it through it and enter government web pages to carry out operations and legal procedures from the computer.

Also, to export a digital certificate on the computer easily, quickly and simply, you have to click on the “Export…” button, which is right next to the “Import…” button, in the same section of “ See certificates…”. But first you have to select the digital certificate you want to export. After clicking on this button, a window will appear, which is the Windows file browser. In this we must choose the place where we want the digital certificate to be successfully exported in the format that one wants. To finish the process, you have to click on the “Save” button, as simple as that.

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Finally, it is worth noting that importing (and exporting) a digital certificate can be done through other browsers, although not all of them offer this option. Likewise, it should be noted that the procedure is practically the same in all of them.


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