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.

 

[Stoneheart]

can we blame SJWs for this?

 

[Ruin]

can we blame SJWs for this?

Maybe? Firefox's performance and update quality has tanked ever since they ousted their CEO for being anti gay marriage.

 

[PantsFreeZone]

This really annoyed me.

To the point that I actually installed the KiwiFarms Brave browser version. It is pretty good except I can't watch non-Youtube videos on it because it blocks all interaction with sites that tie in video watching to ads.

It is fast as fuck though. I'm a fan.

 

[Desi]

They're gonna issue a patch? So does that mean add-ons are gonna stay broken on Firefox 56? If so, fuck Firefox. I'm switching to Waterfox. The whole reason I stayed on 56 is because of all the add-ons that aren't supported in 57+.

 

[Stock Image Photographer]

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

You mean that setting that allowed the Mr. Robot bullshit? They'll have to do better than that. It shouldn't take this long to fix an intermediate certificate signing expiration.

 

[Tookie]

I suppose all you pansies whining about your adblockers being broken probably wear condoms when you rail a hooker too.

 

[XYZpdq]

OH NO IT'S AT THE SAD PANDA AGAIN
ALL HOPE IS LOST

 

[A shitty ass clover]

Is brave any good? fucking firefox consumes resources like a leech and can go fuck itself if it happens again.

 

[Kosher Dill]

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

If you're the type to leave "Studies" enabled, you probably didn't have an adblock extension installed anyway.

 

[GrungyLawnChlorinate]

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.

The new Chromium Edge is nice, as is Brave. Any Chromium but Chrome is always a good plan.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Is brave any good? fucking firefox consumes resources like a leech and can go fuck itself if it happens again.

Brave is good, it can run Chrome addons so get TheGreatSuspender, it unloads/suspends tabs if they haven't been used/active in a set number of minutes, or you can press a button to suspend a tab directly. I have 500 tabs* open right now and Chrome is using 2GB of memory all in all, Brave shouldn't be much different.

*I swear I'm going to finish reading those articles/watch that video some day.

 

[Spicy Hog]

I don't use many extensions so it was pretty easy to just run the xpi files through the debug menu to force them to load, but I guess getting Brave wouldn't be a bad idea at this point.

 

[X Prime]

I personally would recommend Vivaldi with uMatrix and uBlock Origin (or really, just uMatrix) as a backup.

 

[Xarpho]

I'm already using Waterfox because Firefox decided half my extensions were "legacy" as it upgraded.

 

[Dededon't]

Seems that I slept through the extension issue because it's not currently acting up. I probably should switch to another browser but it always feels too foreign for my old brain.

 

[GrungyLawnChlorinate]

I personally would recommend Vivaldi with uMatrix and uBlock Origin (or really, just uMatrix) as a backup.

Vivaldi is the only real competition Firefox has, imo. It's crazy customizable and powerful, unlike all the other Chromium-based browsers.

 

[QI 541]

So from what I've learned in this thread, most people have automatic updates turned on, and they don't leave their browser open for days at a time.

This really annoyed me.

To the point that I actually installed the KiwiFarms Brave browser version. It is pretty good except I can't watch non-Youtube videos on it because it blocks all interaction with sites that tie in video watching to ads.

It is fast as fuck though. I'm a fan.

I planned to switch to Brave a long time ago but then they got rid of the menu bar. Oh and apparently they went and moved the menu options to the bottom of the browser now? Fuck that shit.

 

[Foxxo]

Firefox is far too possessive nowadays. It is seeped in corruption, "trendiness", and other cockwaffle that makes it a pain to use.

I actually wouldn't mind if it just didn't ever run extensions, as then I wouldn't be getting rsearch (otherwise known as the only reason people use Yahoo's browser) or Genio (the world's first aggressive Zionist AI adware) latched onto every Mac I touch when I'm not using Chrome. However, Firefox's staff has so much ADHD that they pushed a text-editing adware buttplug for their favorite show of the week onto everyone, and they'll likely do something like this again.

 

[X Prime]

Vivaldi is the only real competition Firefox has, imo. It's crazy customizable and powerful, unlike all the other Chromium-based browsers.

Honestly, the only thing Brave has over Vivaldi is the BAT system for funding your favorite websites.

This makes sense, because Brave and Vivaldi have different goals. Brave wants to destroy the current online ad ecosystem, while Vivaldi doesn't care about it.

The big problem is that Google is purposefully and blatantly trying to neuter ad-blockers by changing the API they use. Chromium's days of being able to support extensions like uMatrix are numbered.

 

[Shroom King]

I started using brave about a few days ago ( to support the Farms) and I like it. It's script blocker seems to be "smarter" than NoScript. Haven't seen any ads.