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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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On the subject of general browsering did Downthemall ever work on anything again?
 
This is the reason why I forced Firefox to only update when I allow it, the copy I have still runs all of my plugins extensions just fine. It's a shame you can't download a specific version of Firefox and are forced to get the latest one by default, this problem would've been fixed by now simply by rolling back. Having a list of different versions you'd like to run would be a big boon coming from a company that likes to boast that it's "for people, not profit."
 
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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Tried watching a video on my new computer, on a site called OpenLoad, and couldn't get it in full screen. Got assaulted by all kinds of popunders, fake allow certificates, and even one site straight up downloading something. I installed MalwareBytes and Hitmanpro in a mad dash of desperation, and it straight up found two viruses in cache and blocked Openload for being a trojan.

I think it's more than AIDS. It's an STD Bargain Sale.
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
This is the reason why I forced Firefox to only update when I allow it, the copy I have still runs all of my plugins extensions just fine. It's a shame you can't download a specific version of Firefox and are forced to get the latest one by default, this problem would've been fixed by now simply by rolling back. Having a list of different versions you'd like to run would be a big boon coming from a company that likes to boast that it's "for people, not profit."
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I have version 54 and it still happened (and only because got I sick of the updates fucking with my add-ons), and it didn't even affect all of them, weirdly enough.
 
Zero0 said:
Anyway I know people here have been sugesting Brave, but wasn't chrome trying to kill adblockers? Wouldnt that affect brave aswell?
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Does Brave automatically update from Chrome's setup or would they have to actively choose to move to the new architecture?
 
Zero0 said:
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?
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the people who code Firefox are clearly incompetent and I don't know when (or if) they're even going to fix this. Ublock just died on me for no reason.
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
This is the reason why I forced Firefox to only update when I allow it, the copy I have still runs all of my plugins extensions just fine. It's a shame you can't download a specific version of Firefox and are forced to get the latest one by default, this problem would've been fixed by now simply by rolling back. Having a list of different versions you'd like to run would be a big boon coming from a company that likes to boast that it's "for people, not profit."
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On oldversion.com you can find old versions of Firefox from 2000 to 2016. And after a fairly uneventful browsing, Firefox just announced that it killed all my extensions. Shit.
 
That's probably because you have Firefox Studies enabled, which lets them stealth-add extensions to your browser for study purposes.

That's how they fixed the bug.
 
X Prime said:
That's probably because you have Firefox Studies enabled, which lets them stealth-add extensions to your browser for study purposes.

That's how they fixed the bug.
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I just enabled that, how long would it take if I did so, or am I screwed when it comes to my extensions?
 
I normally use Opera as a daily driver but after reading about this, I went ahead and tried out Brave. Not only it helps me support papi chulo Null but it's pretty comfy so far, I must say. All the extensions I use on Opera work just fine on Brave.

747091


What I usually run. What extensions do you guys recommend, especially for Brave?
 
X Prime said:
That's probably because you have Firefox Studies enabled, which lets them stealth-add extensions to your browser for study purposes.

That's how they fixed the bug.
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Exactly right.

If you want your Firefox AND functioning extensions you need to have "Studies" enabled.

Mozilla update here for those new to the situation:

Add-ons disabled or fail to install on Firefox | Mozilla Support

How to fix the failed add-ons problem from May 2019.
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If you want your Firefox AND functioning extensions you need to have "Studies" enabled.

Mozilla update here for those new to the situation:

Add-ons disabled or fail to install on Firefox | Mozilla Support

How to fix the failed add-ons problem from May 2019.
support.mozilla.org support.mozilla.org


"Install our spyware or we won't fix the massive glitch we created."

What assholes, consumer friendly my ass.
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
This is the reason why I forced Firefox to only update when I allow it, the copy I have still runs all of my plugins extensions just fine. It's a shame you can't download a specific version of Firefox and are forced to get the latest one by default, this problem would've been fixed by now simply by rolling back. Having a list of different versions you'd like to run would be a big boon coming from a company that likes to boast that it's "for people, not profit."
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Every version for every platform, I think. Like I said, I dropped it before they decided to nuke useful extensions.
 
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