What's Going on with Firefox Addons/Extensions?
 

All my addons/extensions just stopped working on both Slackware (FF v. 60.6.1) and Ubuntu MATE (FF v. 66.0.3)--addons, extensions, themes, with messages that they are no longer supported.

When I say "just," I mean like minutes ago.

Apparently some signing certificate just expired: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973

Depending on your version, a temporary workaround might be to set xpinstall.signatures.required to false in about:config.

Thanks. I'll sit on it until tomorrow. Then we'll see . . . .

ditto. Just happened here in the last hour or so.
I was streaming a video and a window popped up with the same message.

Oh of course they have, and maybe the world is ending too :rolleyes:

Did you not read ntubski's post #2, in particular, the link within ?

Would you please stop your dislike of Microsoft polluting your answers here on LQ, fatmac. It's starting to become very tiring and is detracting from your normally good replies.

This has happened to me too. It's a pretty bad failing because people using FF now have a browser which is less secure.

Is this some kind of conflict with FF and the addon-providers?
What are people supposed to do in the meantime? Install Opera browser?

^ nah, i think it's just a regular f**k-up.
anyhow, SMH, very sad. only recently i gave up on seamonkey (it's just getting more and more outdated) and now this...
i hope some serious user.js hacking can help evtl., but this:
did not.
firefox 66.0.3.

does anybody know what versions it works on and what not? and why?

faketime helps for now, but it's hardly a fix:

Mozilla has announced on Twitter (https://twitter.com/mozamo) that it has created a hotfix that re-enables affected add-ons. The fix will be automatically applied in the background within the next few hours.

Frank - https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/0...fox-extensions

The "fix" seems to have worked in reverse for me! I noticed nothing yesterday or this morning but suddenly DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials has gone down.

The fix has not yet worked for me either. I have "studies enabled" within "Firefox Preferences -> Privacy & Security -> Allow Firefox to install and run studies", but nothing has changed for me yet. My add-ons are still not working.

You can't do that in Slackware. The option is greyed out ("Data reporting is disabled for this build"). And frankly, I think Patrick is right in principle. It's just another of these damned privacy violations that companies like to put you through.

They say they're working on a fix which doesn't require activating that option.

It has hit the news,

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...s-Cert-Expired

A link to the same story can be found on the Google News web site.