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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.
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This shit is happening to me so I'd thought I'd spread the word.
 
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THIS HAPPENED TO ME

I wrote that in the reason why I uninstalled FF. Switched to Waterfox (Sorry Null I promise I'll try Brave some day)

RIP Mozilla. You honestly earned it.
 
I stopped using Firefox at least five years ago because every fucking time they updated the program, all my extensions would be uninstalled. At one point they shifted to a more-frequent update schedule and that was the end.
 
I was wondering why AdBlock stopped and I couldn't download videos all of a sudden. Good to know.

But otherwise lol.
 
Exceptional Mafioso said:
I stopped using Firefox at least five years ago because every fucking time they updated the program, all my extensions would be uninstalled. At one point they shifted to a more-frequent update schedule and that was the end.
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Same. I semi-recently went back because now Chrome is shit and Firefox was actually acting really spiffy.
Can we just have a browser that fucking works.
 
Exceptional Mafioso said:
If you liked Firefox, try Pale Moon.
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Normally I'd say I'm fine with Waterfox for now since it seems it's working, but after having my goddamn adblocker ripped out of my hands mid-browsing, I suddenly feel the urgency of having at least a few browsers installed that I actively maintain and use as a backup. So thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it out.
In fact, we may as well make this an alternative browser suggestion thread.
 
Brave's another browser that's been recommended here. Besides the fact it gives money to this site it's also a chrome fork with the stuff you want in it such as an adblocker or the ability to fire up a tor window. If you hate Google but still can't stand using anything but Chrome, give it a try.
 
This just happened to me and I just said fuck it and switched to Brave. No regrets.
 
It's mindblowing how AIDS the internet is without an ad blocker. I went to my local news site and it locked up for 15 seconds and in the bottom left it was loading a bunch of shit from a ton of different URLs. When it was done it was plastered in ads from top to bottom. Fuck the advertisers and their whining maybe if you didn't let it get this bad we wouldn't all be filtering your shit.
 
I'm just glad this isn't my fault. My potato is such a quirky piece of shit and I'm desperately saving up for a new rig, I was worried this was just happening to me.
I had to reinstall my browser on my one goddamn day off this week. I expect a major company to keep it's shit together.
 
Exceptional Mafioso said:
If you liked Firefox, try Pale Moon.
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I use Pale Moon (doing it right now) and it's quite satisfactory. I made the switch when they changed how extensions should be made and killed many of the ones I used. Even though I found good replacements, I left them out of principle. I also use Opera. They also virtue-signal a lot, so fuck them.
 
hemolyzer said:
It's mindblowing how AIDS the internet is without an ad blocker. I went to my local news site and it locked up for 15 seconds and in the bottom left it was loading a bunch of shit from a ton of different URLs. When it was done it was plastered in ads from top to bottom. Fuck the advertisers and their whining maybe if you didn't let it get this bad we wouldn't all be filtering your shit.
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Back when I used Ghostery the worst sites of all were American local news sites. Worse than the Chinese sites, worse than the Russians. How one site could have twenty six or more useless scripts running at once was beyond me, probably helps explain why most of them run like shit too.
 
I think I might be one of the few who hasn't experienced this problem yet. Though just saying that now, I fear like it's going to happen at some point.
 
Temporary workaround from windowslatest.com:

  1. In the regular build of Firefox, go to about:debugging.
  2. Check the box to let Firefox start debugging the add-ons.
  3. Click ‘Load Temporary Add-On’
  4. Browse to your Firefox profile in appdata:
  5. C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<example text>.default\extensions
  6. In the extensions folder, you will find .xpi files.
  7. These files are actually the extensions that you had
  8. Load the extensions manually, but the extension may stop working if you close or restart Firefox.
 
CIA Nigger said:
Brave's another browser that's been recommended here. Besides the fact it gives money to this site it's also a chrome fork with the stuff you want in it such as an adblocker or the ability to fire up a tor window. If you hate Google but still can't stand using anything but Chrome, give it a try.
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Does it let you disable Material Design, though? Because I really wish I could disable the abomination Google made impossible to turn off since Chrome 55.
 
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