Re: Mozilla blows it with Firefox big time. Huge bug.

[Mr. Man-wai Chang]

On 5/4/2019 9:04 PM, John Corliss wrote:
> "Some Firefox users started to notice that installed browser extensions
> were all disabled in the web browser suddenly. Extensions would display
> 'could not be verified for use in Firefox and has been disabled'
> messages in the add-ons manager of the browser. Firefox would display
> 'One or more installed add-ons cannot be verified and have been
> disabled' at the top as a notification next to that."

This is the 2nd time an expired certificate caused system failure. I
think the first time I heard it was this incidence:

Ericsson: Expired certificate caused O2 and SoftBank outages
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/ericsson-expired-certificate-caused-o2-and-softbank-outages/>


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