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In Firefox All Extensions Disabled Due to Expiration of Intermediate Signing Cert

posted by mrpg on Saturday May 04 2019, @04:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the FFS! dept.

Armagadd-on 2.0, Mozilla expired certificate disables add-ons

An Anonymous Coward writes:

No, the culprit you are losing add-ons isn't your computer, or maybe your old FF, or dropping of Webextensions API. Twitter, Reddit, everyone is wondering what is going on. This Armagadd-on 2.0 has a simple explanation: Mozilla forgot to renew certificates, and so add-ons are failing like if they were not properly signed, because technically they are not. Even signing of new add-ons is down (see comment 9). Great weekend at Mozilla HQ!

Some workarounds, until they clean up the mess, include playing with the computer clock (NTP? forget it) or disabling signature checks (not possible in default releases).

All Firefox extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert

An Anonymous Coward writes:

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0

Steps to reproduce:

Wait until it's past midnight on 2019-05-04 UTC.

Actual results:

All addons got disabled due not having valid signature.

Expected results:

If the signature was due to expire, it should have been renewed weeks ago. Not all extensions were disabled. Fakespot and Google Scholar Button were left in their disabled state.

Some reports on reddit says that they had their clocks a day forward, but they may be just early canaries for the actual widespread issue.

Going backwards in time allows installation from AMO (Mozilla Add-ons) but do not remove the unsupported mark from the add-ons already installed.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973

Workaround: Go to about:config and set xpinstall.signatures.required to false

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Arik on Saturday May 04 2019, @05:16AM (3 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Saturday May 04 2019, @05:16AM (#838713) Journal
    Bend over and grunt, you're done and you know it.

    What's worse, you deserve it. Filthy pretentious board.

    (There are probably some folks that were doing real work and absolutely don't deserve it. To them, sorry, good luck landing the next gig.)
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by julian on Saturday May 04 2019, @07:12AM (2 children)

    by julian (6003) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 04 2019, @07:12AM (#838744)

    This is really not a good thing for anyone. Do you really want the entire WWW controlled by Google and their rendering engine?

    • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 04 2019, @01:14PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 04 2019, @01:14PM (#838795)

      Mozilla's death won't lead to the death of Gecko any more than Netscape's did.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Saturday May 04 2019, @10:10PM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday May 04 2019, @10:10PM (#838995) Journal

      Actually I'd prefer Waterfox taking over.

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