What's Going on with Firefox Addons/Extensions?

frankbell · 05-03-2019, 09:16 PM

All my addons/extensions just stopped working on both Slackware (FF v. 60.6.1) and Ubuntu MATE (FF v. 66.0.3)--addons, extensions, themes, with messages that they are no longer supported.

When I say "just," I mean like minutes ago.

ntubski · 05-03-2019, 10:25 PM

Apparently some signing certificate just expired: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973

Depending on your version, a temporary workaround might be to set xpinstall.signatures.required to false in about:config.

frankbell · 05-03-2019, 10:26 PM

Thanks. I'll sit on it until tomorrow. Then we'll see . . . .

cwizardone · 05-03-2019, 11:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frankbell

All my addons/extensions just stopped working on both Slackware (FF v. 60.6.1) and Ubuntu MATE (FF v. 66.0.3)--addons, extensions, themes, with messages that they are no longer supported.

When I say "just," I mean like minutes ago.

ditto. Just happened here in the last hour or so.
I was streaming a video and a window popped up with the same message.

fatmac · 05-04-2019, 03:57 AM

Me too, just this morning, they just unloaded my blocker & downloader, without so much as asking me - this smacks of Microsoft - have they sold out?!*

jsbjsb001 · 05-04-2019, 04:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fatmac

Me too, just this morning, they just unloaded my blocker & downloader, without so much as asking me - this smacks of Microsoft - have they sold out?!*

Oh of course they have, and maybe the world is ending too

Did you not read ntubski's post #2, in particular, the link within ?

hydrurga · 05-04-2019, 04:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fatmac

Me too, just this morning, they just unloaded my blocker & downloader, without so much as asking me - this smacks of Microsoft - have they sold out?!*

Would you please stop your dislike of Microsoft polluting your answers here on LQ, fatmac. It's starting to become very tiring and is detracting from your normally good replies.

braithwaite · 05-04-2019, 05:47 AM

This has happened to me too. It's a pretty bad failing because people using FF now have a browser which is less secure.

Is this some kind of conflict with FF and the addon-providers?
What are people supposed to do in the meantime? Install Opera browser?

ondoho · 05-04-2019, 05:54 AM

^ nah, i think it's just a regular f**k-up.
anyhow, SMH, very sad. only recently i gave up on seamonkey (it's just getting more and more outdated) and now this...
i hope some serious user.js hacking can help evtl., but this:

Quote:

Originally Posted by ntubski

Apparently some signing certificate just expired: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973

Depending on your version, a temporary workaround might be to set xpinstall.signatures.required to false in about:config.

did not.
firefox 66.0.3.

does anybody know what versions it works on and what not? and why?

faketime helps for now, but it's hardly a fix:

Code:

faketime '2019-05-03' /usr/bin/firefox

hydrurga · 05-04-2019, 06:01 AM

Mozilla has announced on Twitter (https://twitter.com/mozamo) that it has created a hotfix that re-enables affected add-ons. The fix will be automatically applied in the background within the next few hours.

hemlocktree · 05-04-2019, 07:25 AM

Frank - https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/0...fox-extensions

hazel · 05-04-2019, 08:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hydrurga

Mozilla has announced on Twitter (https://twitter.com/mozamo) that it has created a hotfix that re-enables affected add-ons. The fix will be automatically applied in the background within the next few hours.

The "fix" seems to have worked in reverse for me! I noticed nothing yesterday or this morning but suddenly DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials has gone down.

mark_alfred · 05-04-2019, 09:01 AM

The fix has not yet worked for me either. I have "studies enabled" within "Firefox Preferences -> Privacy & Security -> Allow Firefox to install and run studies", but nothing has changed for me yet. My add-ons are still not working.

hazel · 05-04-2019, 09:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mark_alfred

The fix has not yet worked for me either. I have "studies enabled" within "Firefox Preferences -> Privacy & Security -> Allow Firefox to install and run studies", but nothing has changed for me yet. My add-ons are still not working.

You can't do that in Slackware. The option is greyed out ("Data reporting is disabled for this build"). And frankly, I think Patrick is right in principle. It's just another of these damned privacy violations that companies like to put you through.

They say they're working on a fix which doesn't require activating that option.

cwizardone · 05-04-2019, 09:26 AM

It has hit the news,

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...s-Cert-Expired

A link to the same story can be found on the Google News web site.