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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

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

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: 2) by srobert on Saturday May 04 2019, @09:38PM (1 child)

    by srobert (4803) on Saturday May 04 2019, @09:38PM (#838983)

    LOL. The CIA lied us into war and got a few hundred thousand people killed.
    But now that they parrot the Russiagate narrative, we trust them.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 08 2019, @04:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 08 2019, @04:01PM (#840825)

    Because an intelligence agency needs to 1) always lie 2) always tell the truth. That will really keep the opponents guessing...