Firefox glitch breaking all extensions

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Did you just open Firefox only to find all of your extensions disabled and/or otherwise not working? You’re not alone, and it’s nothing you did. Reports are pouring in of a glitch that has spontaneously disabled effectively all Firefox extensions. Each extension is now being listed as a…

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Did you just open Firefox only to find all of your extensions disabled and/or otherwise not working?

You’re not alone, and it’s nothing you did.

Reports are pouring in of a glitch that has spontaneously disabled effectively all Firefox extensions.

Each extension is now being listed as a “legacy” extension, alongside a warning that it “could not be verified for use in Firefox and has been disabled”.

A ticket submitted to Mozilla’s Bugzilla bug tracker first hit at around 5:40 PM Pacific, and suggests the sudden failure is due to a code signing certificate built into the browser that expired just after 5 PM (or midnight on May 4th in UTC time).

Because the glitch stems from an underlying certificate, re-installing extensions won’t work — if you try, you’ll likely just be met with a different error message. Getting extensions back for everyone is going to require Mozilla to issue a patch.

In a post on the company’s forum, Mozilla Add-ons Community Manager Caitlin Neiman writes:

At about 6:10 PST we received a report that a certificate issue for Firefox is causing add-ons to stop working and add-on installs to fail.
Our team is actively working on a fix. We will update as soon as we have more information.

This shit is happening to me so I'd thought I'd spread the word.

 

[Ryker]

Just happened to me.

Goodnight sweet Firefox.

Time to try alternatives.

EDIT: update...installed Brave. Looks good so far. Snappy performance. Added bonus is that I can now support Null and the farms. When Firefox sorts this mess out I will test it against Brave and see how each stacks up in terms of what I need. It's odd using a different browser as I've used Firefox for donkey's years but I simply cannot stand all of the dross gumming up pages that I browse without the ability to block it out. I NEED my extensions.

 

[The Un-Clit]

A glitch is breaking all Firefox extensions – TechCrunch

Did you just open Firefox only to find all of your extensions disabled and/or otherwise not working? You’re not alone, and it’s nothing you did. Reports are pouring in of a glitch that has spontaneously disabled effectively all Firefox extensions. Each extension is now being listed as a…

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This shit is happening to me so I'd thought I'd spread the word.

Same, this fucking sucks. Dark view extention is a godbearsend to me, now not only to I have to see shitty ads again, I get to see them on a giant white blazing screen on most sites.

 

[Neet Tokusatsu]

And i was wondering why i was getting a shitton of ads while browsing YT all of the sudden, ugh, time to switch to another browser i guess

 

[QI 541]

Could be worse, could be Microsoft forcing an update that bricks your entire PC and deletes your data.

 

[nonperson]

Happened to me too and it is annoying, but it's just a glitch and it will be corrected soon enough (an expired certificate, from what I understand).

I don't think it's good enough reason to rage quit the most privacy conscious of the mainstream browsers, surely we're not that fickle.

Use something else meanwhile and come back to it in a day or so.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

If i recall you could turn off signed extensions in about : config, I think its xpinstall signatures.required: false but I'm not sure as I dropped Firefox when it became Chrome. I switched to Pale Moon.

Seamonkey is a good alternative (until they decide to drink the Firefox kool aid but that may take some time).

 

[lolwut]

surely we're not that fickle.

Less that Kiwis are fickle and more just generally autistic and incensed at the thought of getting used to a new browser for a few days.

 

[Wraith]

It's been Pale Moon for me for years. FF used to be interesting... back in 2008! I also use Brave, but this sounds ridiculous. Just ridiculous.

 

[Catastrophe-TM]

Does this happen right in the middle of browsing FireFox or when you open up a new session? Kinda afraid to attempt anything right now.

I've actually been having recent issues with FireFox not loading my home page or anything when I first open it, it nearly requires me to close and open it several times until it finally connects to the site and loads it.

 

[cactus]

Does this happen right in the middle of browsing FireFox or when you open up a new session? Kinda afraid to attempt anything right now.

I've actually been having recent issues with FireFox not loading my home page or anything when I first open it, it nearly requires me to close and open it several times until it finally connects to the site and loads it.

I've had my open for a couple days, it still did it. Been using Chrome with uBlock installed because fuck ads on YouTube.

 

[vertexwindi]

Wow, this happened right before I made the switch to Brave. Good thing too, everything's loading way faster now.

 

[diarrhoea]

i only used adnauseum and a translation add on so the switch to brave was painless, fuck firefox more like firefux heh

 

[MG 620]

I just about shit myself when I saw...A YOUTUBE AD!

I pray to God you were not viewing a Hamber video!

 

[lolwut]

All my extensions just started working again, looks like they fixed the issue.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Does this happen right in the middle of browsing FireFox or when you open up a new session? Kinda afraid to attempt anything right now.

I've actually been having recent issues with FireFox not loading my home page or anything when I first open it, it nearly requires me to close and open it several times until it finally connects to the site and loads it.

Happened to me in the middle of a session. I suddenly got a notification telling me to make sure my extensions were working properly. That's when I found out Firefox wasn't letting me download any adblock extensions at all. I wasn't sure what was going on, and trying to search for the issue didn't help. I stumbled across a news article talking about it and realized I wasn't the only one.

All my extensions just started working again, looks like they fixed the issue.

I was able to download adblock again, so you're probably right.

 

[Tookie]

There is a hotfix deployed that should install in the background as long as you have "Studies" enabled in your preferences.

 

[The Fool]

Too late. Their decision to not simply allow me to use an addon without their "permission" has made me move browsers. There's no excuse for this.

 

[Kulee Baba]

Frankly I think firing Brandon Eich which resulted in Brave's formation was truly one of the greatest things to happen in internet history.

RIP Firefox

 

[MG 620]

Damn. Now my Firefox shit itself too. I'm not visiting Reddit like this.

 

[Ruin]

There is a hotfix deployed that should install in the background as long as you have "Studies" enabled in your preferences.

Nah, Brave all the way. Fuck Firefox.