LXer: Firefox armaggadd-on: Lapsed security cert kills all browser extensions, from website password managers to ad blockers

LXer · 05-07-2019, 03:21 AM

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Mozillans scramble over the weekend to undo damageOn Friday, Mozilla detected a great disturbance in its Firefox browser, as if millions of voices had cried out on social media in annoyance.…

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greencedar · 05-07-2019, 05:20 PM

The data that has been to users the world-wide has been huge.

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Every single web extension, theme, search engine plugin, and language pack had been nuked from netizens' Firefox installations, stripping any data and settings associated with them as they were removed.

For example, in a post on Hacker News, Rosser Schwarz, who works with databases, lamented how the add-on annihilation lost work stored in the Firefox container add-on.

"I did not merely 'lose some tabs'; those, I could just re-open," he said. "I lost work. That data, effort, and time are gone."

Not only data was lost, but the time needed to rectify the problem is huge.