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.

 

[Prompt Critical]

Congratulations to Mozilla for finally convincing me to switch browsers, something I've been meaning to do for over a decade, but haven't up to this point because too lazy to mess with porting over addons, bookmarks, etc.

Maybe it's just me, but there was something particularly horrifying about getting a message that my adblock was no longer allowed to run in the middle of a browsing session with no explanation given or immediately available fix/workaround.

I'm not crazy about the lack of ability to customize toolbars in Brave but otherwise it seems fine.

 

[Army Burger]

Congratulations to Mozilla for finally convincing me to switch browsers, something I've been meaning to do for over a decade, but haven't up to this point because too lazy to mess with porting over addons, bookmarks, etc.

Maybe it's just me, but there was something particularly horrifying about getting a message that my adblock was no longer allowed to run in the middle of a browsing session with no explanation given or immediately available fix/workaround.

Yeah, suddenly getting ads on Youtube was a bit irritating to say the least.

 

[Cheetahman]

What extensions do you guys recommend, especially for Brave?

panicsteve/cloud-to-butt

Chrome extension that replaces occurrences of 'the cloud' with 'my butt' - panicsteve/cloud-to-butt

github.com

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Anyone else get the fix yet? I just got mine a little bit ago.

 

[Timaeus Testified]

I got the fix. Regardless, I think I'll keep Firefox around as a secondary browser. I'll try Brave for now. Do you still need AdBlock extensions or does Brave block them adequately enough?

 

[fishmonger]

Special thanks to Mozilla for finally pushing me to try out brave instead. And oh boy, I wished I switched sooner.

I am starting to miss Adnauseum, though.

 

[Neet Tokusatsu]

Well, using Brave right now, it feels nice to watch videos on YT without ads every two minutes again

 

[Underestimated Nutria]

I was wondering why AdBlock stopped and I couldn't download videos all of a sudden. Good to know.

But otherwise lol.

Do you know an easy way to download Youtube videos without a third-party intermediary (i mean, like going to www.youtubedownloader.com or whatever and inserting the relevant URL)? I tried an extension a year ago (I forget its name) but it never "detected" the video I wanted to download.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Do you know an easy way to download Youtube videos without a third-party intermediary (i mean, like going to www.youtubedownloader.com or whatever and inserting the relevant URL)? I tried an extension a year ago (I forget its name) but it never "detected" the video I wanted to download.

Nah, afraid not, I just currently use Qdownloader for now for YouTube videos. The Video DownloadHelper add-on is what I use for other sites.

 

[Underestimated Nutria]

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

 

[Keystone]

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+.

I stuck to 56 too. Went to complete shit after 57. Any fix for this that doesn't involve turning Studies on/off?

I've got Brave but still.

 

[Ryker]

Any fix for this that doesn't involve turning Studies on/off?

I've got Brave but still.

To my understanding this is the only "fix" available at the moment.

 

[Keystone]

To my understanding this is the only "fix" available at the moment.

How gay

These chucklefucks are probably too incompetent to find a real fix any time soon.

 

[nonperson]

I'm weary of any browsers that use Chromium under the hood, and Brave unfortunately is one.

While they do claim to remove the parts of Chromium that 'phone home' to Google, I'm a bit skeptical. The BAT functionality, while cool, also means that browser is tracking your every move. You're only a patch & policy update (or exploit) away from your data being exported (hell, they will profile you in some way based on your ad fetch requests at the very least anyway).

Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, are all Chromium based.

Don't get me wrong, Brave is nice and a great way to support this forum - I use it on my phone and it works great. That said, I treat my phone as if the whole world has access to it.

Anyway, while very annoying (and they still haven't properly patched this dumb problem yet), Firefox is still the better alternative if you really value your privacy. There's a reason TOR browser is based on it. That said, using another browser meanwhile is the sane thing to do.

 

[downwardspiral]

how long until null comes here to shill brave?

 

[BillyGoat2]

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

windows 8.1 update bricked my steam library. I had to re install like 300gb worth of shit.

 

[Glad I couldn't help]

I'm weary of any browsers that use Chromium under the hood, and Brave unfortunately is one.

Unfortunately, I believe the only two html rendering engines left are Chrome's and Firefox's.

 

[moocow]

Do you know an easy way to download Youtube videos without a third-party intermediary (i mean, like going to www.youtubedownloader.com or whatever and inserting the relevant URL)? I tried an extension a year ago (I forget its name) but it never "detected" the video I wanted to download.

I just use youtube-dl for Youtube and everything else (it supports a fuckton of sites) now. It's not an in-browser solution, but it's far more robust.

 

[Stock Image Photographer]

Unfortunately, I believe the only two html rendering engines left are Chrome's and Firefox's.

Safari still uses the WebKit engine, which is the same engine used by a lot of independently-developed open source browsers.

 

[Null]

how long until null comes here to shill brave?

If you're not already on Brave you hate the KF tbh