I got my add-ons back with the about:config fix, but they're still labelled "could not be verified — proceed with caution". But so long as they work, Mozilla can say what they like about them. I only use Firefox for things that upset Midori, like reddit.

It's not a repo, it's a package. It comes from the xap folder of Slackware-14.2. The companion thunderbird package is similarly entitled mozilla-thunderbird. Don't ask me what all this means; I'm a Slackware newbie!

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Wow, how exciting this all is!
At least we've learned that Vivaldi and Opera are substitutes in the meantime.
Someone even ran to Chromium! (Not good IMO).

This is a catastrophic failure for FF.
If it's caused by an external adversary - then that makes it even worse.

FF needs to be offering a free VPN.
FF needs to recommend safe search engines. Where 'statistical analysis' won't identify you.
FF needs to refer to international law or international groups to prove it is somehow 'protected'.

FF lacks support and is clearly vulnerable.

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You have a valid point, however, if it was just an expired cert, then issue a new cert and have on with it. The bigger problem, IMO, is it puts a spotlight (rightly so) on a design flaw(s) within a) Mozilla and/or b) Firefox. The expired cert should have only prevented new addons from being installed, it should not have arbitrarily disabled everyone's addons, making the browser even less secure. Also, how they are attempting to "fix" the problem is beyond moronic and borders on incompetence or worse "by design".

I do think, however, that this is shedding light on just how much behind the scenes silliness firefox has been doing unbeknownst to the user, or most users. Reminds me the old quote/saying (do not know who to attribute it to...) "be vigilant looking for those who approach with aggression and be even more wary of those who come offering peace (safety, security etc...)."

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There is a temporary fix for Tor Browser. See here: https://twitter.com/torproject/statu...44089293996033

chuang tzu - i did not see vivaldi in synaptic. looked on bodhi - and debian. no luck.

Have a look here.

https://vivaldi.com/

I found a slackbuild for it.
https://www.slackbuilds.org/reposito...twork/vivaldi/

Just installed it but I don't know if I can learn to use it. It's immensely confusing, too many facilities for this old head.

For a temporary solution I switched now to Palemoon.
Need to find out what's there on browsers to use/download first.

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Firefox-66.0.4 has been released.

The release notes have yet to be posted, but you can download from here,
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/66.0.4/

And 60.6.2esr is there too, released at the same time, so probably with the same fixes.

I see too that Firefox 67 is going through an enormous amount of BETA's, there's already a 67.0b16 (so the 16th beta) at the mozilla site.

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They always go through numerous betas - around 14-15. Fx 65 had 20 and a previous version had 18. So 16 not such a big number, relatively speaking.

Any way, I've tried numerous browsers, including chromium, vivaldi, falkon and I keep coming back to Fx. I've fixed the add-on issue thanks to the earlier post so I'll stick with it.

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hazel. figured it out and installed vivaldi - but too cluttered and way too many settings for me to waste my time on. might be nice once you get it working but for me at my age - i have more important stuff to do then to waste time doing hundreds of settings on a browser.

hazel, you could also use ruario's script. He works for Vivaldi and also is active on LQ/Slackware.
https://gist.github.com/ruario/dcbba...cc883542ff7ace

Could you imagine the flack any other browser would face if they were able to remotely disable all of your addons? Why is it that Firefox should get a free pass? Or a my bad? Is this what happens when millennials start working?

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