[OT] Fox Apocalypse Deux

[Mark S.]

People (including one where I am) are reporting that their Firefox extensions are being disabled. This might be a temporary problem that resolves itself. As a safeguard, you might be

able to set

xpinstall.signatures.required




in the about:config menu to false




You would want to do this only temporarily since it poses a security risk for adding future extensions and updates.




This trick does not work in FF for Windows -- instead you need the nightly build.




Another trick being reported is to roll the clock back to before midnight, UTC-0, today 5/4 (I think, since strangely my machines aren't experiencing the problem yet).


Here's one commentary thread about the issue:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bkfy5k/as_of_1200_am_utc_nearly_all_firefox_extensions/

[@TiddlyTweeter]

Mark S.

Thanks for that note!

Geez. Talk about complications! I had been under the naive impression the security issues were solved.

FYI, I still haven't fully recovered browser utility from the last Armageddon.

Best wishes

Josiah

[Jeremy Ruston]

Just to be clear, everything I'm reading suggests that this is a temporary glitch that Mozilla are working to fix. Hopefully it's only a fauxpocalypse...

Best wishes

Jeremy.

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On 4 May 2019, at 08:32, @TiddlyTweeter <Tiddly...@assays.tv> wrote:

Mark S.

Thanks for that note!

Geez. Talk about complications! I had naively been under the naive impression the security issues were solved.

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[inmy...@gmail.com]

I looked at the bug report for this and Mozilla missed updating a certificate so everything broke. It should not be a permanent problem.

The bug report and discussion is here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973

This is supposed to have updates but I think that the server is being swamped by people checking and the page doesn't work: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/certificate-issue-causing-add-ons-to-be-disabled-or-fail-to-install/39047

As of 12 minutes ago the status is 'we are making progress'.

[@TiddlyTweeter]

A fix is active. Some users need to activate "about: studies" to get it ... see https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox/

[Mark S.]

The fix didn't work for me. I'm having to recall and replace all extensions that were enabled at the time of the Apocalypse.

One thing (well, lots of things) are unclear. I have:

hotfix-update-xpi-signing-intermediate-bug-1548973 listed as "Active"

Doe that mean I should expect the study to do something, or wait until it becomes "Complete" ?

-- Mark

[coda coder]

My take is, the "temporary glitch" isn't so temporary for security conscious people that have "Studies" disabled.

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[@TiddlyTweeter]

Mark S. wrote:

One thing (well, lots of things) are unclear.

It IS unclear. In my FF add-ons were disabled. Some just disappeared under yet another menu (e.g. Timimi was there still but hidden differently). Very confusing. 

Does that mean I should expect the study to do something, or wait until it becomes "Complete" ?

FWIW, for me enabling it, as they show ...

... it worked immediately and without any further steps.

FWIW, I just use standard Firefox, not Nightly or ESR. 

Best wishes

Josiah