Firefox glitch breaking all extensions

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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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.

 

[The Un-Clit]

Nah, Brave all the way. Fuck Firefox.

Yup. I've supported Mozilla and Firefox all the way since the first releases that didn't suck in the early 2000s, but fuck it. I'm done with the resource-hogging pig on my RAM-limited PC. This shit with breaking all extensions that I've carefully built to how I like to browse was the last straw.

This is my first post with Brave for PC (was already using it mobile) and for the forseeable future, that's all I'll use. The fact that the Kiwi Farms build sends Null some e-shekels for me every month is icing on the cake.

But can I still get the 'True and Honest' tag this way?

edit The Brave default homepage shows a Falcon 9 lifting off. Fucking WINsauce.

 

[Dracula's Spirit Animal]

I'm the only person here who has a working version of Firefox it seems.

Mine's fine too, so far at least. I'm a Linux phagget though, so who knows. Auto-updates are on and I have the newest release.

Edit: Sure enough, I was autistic and already had Studies enabled. Fucking Mozilla.

 

[Ryker]

Yup. I've supported Mozilla and Firefox all the way since the first releases that didn't suck in the early 2000s, but fuck it. I'm done with the resource-hogging pig on my RAM-limited PC. This shit with breaking all extensions that I've carefully built to how I like to browse was the last straw.

I'm the same. Been with iterations of the Firefox browser from very early builds. I, too, tweaked the crap out of it to get it exactly right for me and what I like when browsing. Over time it just seems to have become more cumbersome and resource hungry. Given that I rarely shut down my computers and I'm always doing stuff on the net I have noticed Firefox gets incredibly punch drunk over time and needs to be resuscitated with a reboot to get back to speed.

Whilst I do have Firefox back now, I'm still using the Brave browser. No slow downs, still pretty snappy in terms of performance and I've either got my extensions or their Chrome equivalents up and running ~ so I'm happy. I also like the way Brave sets up the way you can interact with it; and I also like the emphasis behind the browser itself. It's pretty cool.

edit The Brave default homepage shows a Falcon 9 lifting off. Fucking WINsauce.

That's another thing I like: the aesthetic...pointless for many, sure, but I like the look of it.

I'll stick with Brave for a bit, I reckon.

 

[GentlemanFaggot]

Oh my fucking god, when will the fix be deployed!?

I know how to temp add add-ins and it works for adblocking, but of course, when I close and reopen...I gotta do it again and usually only notice when an awful Youtube ad pops up thanks to muscle memory.

Fuck it, I'm downloading Brave.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Fix has been deployed, tried it on another machine & extensions work now.

 

[GentlemanFaggot]

Fix has been deployed, tried it on another machine & extensions work now.

Ah, so it does. It seems I uninstalled my adblocker when I was debugging it, before I knew this was a global issue.

Back to good old Firefox, sorry Brave, you seemed alright, maybe I'll come back to you one day. This event has been rather annoying and eroded my trust in Mozilla.

 

[Hesa]

The update that has gone out overnight seems to have solved the problem. Being cynical I'm sure there's loads of people who will forget to turn off the studies option which will work out nicely for Mozilla.

 

[Catastrophe-TM]

Is there a fix out yet for mobile?

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Should we nickname Firefox as Firefuck?

 

[Kosher Dill]

Is there a fix out yet for mobile?

It showed up this morning for me.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I went to take a shit and come back to have Ublock not working? How does firefox even do this? Automatic updates are deactivated.

Anyway I know people here have been sugesting Brave, but wasn't chrome trying to kill adblockers? Wouldnt that affect brave aswell?

Your post made me check and it happened to me too. wtf, I'm using the ESR build of Firefox with everything turned off and it still disabled uBlock and something else.

I am now wondering whether the usual extensions just don't work for Youtube, period. Thank you for the response!

Extensions can't be published on the Google Play Store if they can download youtube videos. The same extensions(such as Video DownloadHelper) on Firefox does it just fine.

 

[The Fool]

yeah actually fuck it I'll try Brave. It looks sleek as hell.
Oh man and it has "open image in new tab" even Firefucks got rid of that. I missed that so much.

I'm really sad Chromium is pretty much going to be the single standard for the web, designed and maintained by a company that's viciously attempting to destroy adblocking and anonymity. But Firefox isn't looking like much of an alternative anymore.

 

[Keystone]

So they issued a fix, yet my old v56 Firefox still won't load the extensions unless I do that manual fix. This is some fucking bullshit. Is there any way to permanently fix it or do I have to do this every time FF crashes (which is every day for me)?

 

[cactus]

So they issued a fix, yet my old v56 Firefox still won't load the extensions unless I do that manual fix. This is some fucking bullshit. Is there any way to permanently fix it or do I have to do this every time FF crashes (which is every day for me)?

I have version 54 and found this while finding out if I could fix Firefox without upgrading and I believe it's permanent, since you might need to do a restart to enable certain extensions again (like Classic Theme Restorer) and everything worked after restarting.