temporary fix for disabled Firefox extensions
| All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973 See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19823928 for workarounds in MacOS and Linux. I posted to tor-talk, but my account may be blocked. So maybe someone could post if it doesn't show up soon.
Steve Kinney posted this fix elsewhere. Be sure to see my addenda below. "MOZILLA just ripped out /all/ the privacy and security tools I had installed in Firefox, without warning. When I tried to reinstall them, FIREFOX LIED, presenting a notice indicating a broken web connection to the download site. How to fix this: 1) Open a new tab, and type the address about:config 2) Ignore and click through the warning. 3) Search for xpinstall.signatures.required, and toggle the value from true to false 4) Search for extensions.langpacks.signatures.required and toggle the setting from true to false Then reinstall your extensions if necessary. Maybe one in 50 to 100 Firefox users would even know where to begin looking for a way to fix this. Right now I am not at all happy with Mozilla. To put it very mildly." Addenda: "Did that, restarted browser, NoScript and and uBlock origin still inactive with signature warning. Went to Add-ons page. Instead of install buttons there were enable buttons. clicked and restarted the browser. Works now. Not wasting my time to see if resetting the about:configs to true makes the enable button at the add-on page disappear or not Went looking for a fix last night but none were android specific and I didn't know the exact config terms because I'd always used an add-on that disabled the sig requirements in my computer's version of Firefox." Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail On May 3, 2019 9:06:04 PM PDT, Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
| All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19823928 for workarounds in MacOS and Linux.
I posted to tor-talk, but my account may be blocked. So maybe someone could post if it doesn't show up soon.
The steps mentioned below didn't help me, and the alleged automated fixes from Mozilla had not arrived, so I checked again and see they updated their documentation: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firef... Turns out you need to enable Firefox "studies," which I had disabled in Preferences. And now, the documentation says I need to wait up to 6 hours for the study to get loaded. These failed automated updates feel like, "give me convenience, or give me death." Convenience failed, and now I'm assaulted by ads since uBlock Origin is disabled. I had forgotten how unpleasant the Web is. - Greg On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 12:51:19PM -0700, Razer wrote:
Steve Kinney posted this fix elsewhere. Be sure to see my addenda below.
"MOZILLA just ripped out /all/ the privacy and security tools I had installed in Firefox, without warning. When I tried to reinstall them, FIREFOX LIED, presenting a notice indicating a broken web connection to the download site.
How to fix this:
1) Open a new tab, and type the address about:config
2) Ignore and click through the warning.
3) Search for xpinstall.signatures.required, and toggle the value from true to false
4) Search for extensions.langpacks.signatures.required and toggle the setting from true to false
Then reinstall your extensions if necessary.
Maybe one in 50 to 100 Firefox users would even know where to begin looking for a way to fix this. Right now I am not at all happy with Mozilla. To put it very mildly."
Addenda: "Did that, restarted browser, NoScript and and uBlock origin still inactive with signature warning. Went to Add-ons page. Instead of install buttons there were enable buttons. clicked and restarted the browser. Works now. Not wasting my time to see if resetting the about:configs to true makes the enable button at the add-on page disappear or not
Went looking for a fix last night but none were android specific and I didn't know the exact config terms because I'd always used an add-on that disabled the sig requirements in my computer's version of Firefox."
Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail
On May 3, 2019 9:06:04 PM PDT, Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
| All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19823928 for workarounds in MacOS and Linux.
I posted to tor-talk, but my account may be blocked. So maybe someone could post if it doesn't show up soon.
Hello, Maybe this can help you. In my case I noticed that this fix works only on Firefox android. On Firefox for Gnu-Linux it works only with Firefox ESR. You can use the same profile with Firefox ESR without reinstalling all extensions. https://outgoing.prod.mozaws.net/v1/cae46a70e91e5438ee79974043843470128d28ae... This is what Giorgio Maone, the author of No script, suggests. Cheers Gigi Il 5 maggio 2019 15:31:06 CEST, Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> ha scritto:
The steps mentioned below didn't help me, and the alleged automated fixes from Mozilla had not arrived, so I checked again and see they updated their documentation: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firef...
Turns out you need to enable Firefox "studies," which I had disabled in Preferences.
And now, the documentation says I need to wait up to 6 hours for the study to get loaded. These failed automated updates feel like, "give me convenience, or give me death." Convenience failed, and now I'm assaulted by ads since uBlock Origin is disabled. I had forgotten how unpleasant the Web is. - Greg
Steve Kinney posted this fix elsewhere. Be sure to see my addenda below.
"MOZILLA just ripped out /all/ the privacy and security tools I had installed in Firefox, without warning. When I tried to reinstall them, FIREFOX LIED, presenting a notice indicating a broken web connection to
On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 12:51:19PM -0700, Razer wrote: the download site.
How to fix this:
1) Open a new tab, and type the address about:config
2) Ignore and click through the warning.
3) Search for xpinstall.signatures.required, and toggle the value
from true to false
4) Search for extensions.langpacks.signatures.required and toggle
the setting from true to false
Then reinstall your extensions if necessary.
Maybe one in 50 to 100 Firefox users would even know where to begin
looking for a way to fix this. Right now I am not at all happy with Mozilla. To put it very mildly."
Addenda: "Did that, restarted browser, NoScript and and uBlock origin still
inactive with signature warning. Went to Add-ons page. Instead of install buttons there were enable buttons. clicked and restarted the browser. Works now. Not wasting my time to see if resetting the about:configs to true makes the enable button at the add-on page disappear or not
Went looking for a fix last night but none were android specific and
I didn't know the exact config terms because I'd always used an add-on that disabled the sig requirements in my computer's version of Firefox."
Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail
On May 3, 2019 9:06:04 PM PDT, Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
| All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19823928 for workarounds in MacOS and Linux.
I posted to tor-talk, but my account may be blocked. So maybe
someone
could post if it doesn't show up soon.
On May 5, 2019 6:31:06 AM PDT, Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> wrote:
The steps mentioned below didn't help me, and the alleged automated fixes from Mozilla had not arrived, so I checked again and see they updated their documentation: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firef...
Turns out you need to enable Firefox "studies,"
No you don't. On my S7 version all I had to do was the about:config fix. With the tab s4 I had to go to the add-ons site and activate an Enable button that was there instead of the Install button. No reason it should be any different in the computer distro. One or the other... most likely the latter, should work w/o mozilla 'studying' you. Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail which I had disabled in
Preferences.
And now, the documentation says I need to wait up to 6 hours for the study to get loaded. These failed automated updates feel like, "give me convenience, or give me death." Convenience failed, and now I'm assaulted by ads since uBlock Origin is disabled. I had forgotten how unpleasant the Web is. - Greg
Steve Kinney posted this fix elsewhere. Be sure to see my addenda below.
"MOZILLA just ripped out /all/ the privacy and security tools I had installed in Firefox, without warning. When I tried to reinstall them, FIREFOX LIED, presenting a notice indicating a broken web connection to
On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 12:51:19PM -0700, Razer wrote: the download site.
How to fix this:
1) Open a new tab, and type the address about:config
2) Ignore and click through the warning.
3) Search for xpinstall.signatures.required, and toggle the value
from true to false
4) Search for extensions.langpacks.signatures.required and toggle
the setting from true to false
Then reinstall your extensions if necessary.
Maybe one in 50 to 100 Firefox users would even know where to begin
looking for a way to fix this. Right now I am not at all happy with Mozilla. To put it very mildly."
Addenda: "Did that, restarted browser, NoScript and and uBlock origin still
inactive with signature warning. Went to Add-ons page. Instead of install buttons there were enable buttons. clicked and restarted the browser. Works now. Not wasting my time to see if resetting the about:configs to true makes the enable button at the add-on page disappear or not
Went looking for a fix last night but none were android specific and
I didn't know the exact config terms because I'd always used an add-on that disabled the sig requirements in my computer's version of Firefox."
Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail
On May 3, 2019 9:06:04 PM PDT, Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
| All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19823928 for workarounds in MacOS and Linux.
I posted to tor-talk, but my account may be blocked. So maybe
someone
could post if it doesn't show up soon.
On 05/05/2019 01:28 PM, Razer wrote:
On May 5, 2019 6:31:06 AM PDT, Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> wrote:
The steps mentioned below didn't help me, and the alleged automated fixes from Mozilla had not arrived, so I checked again and see they updated their documentation: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firef...
Turns out you need to enable Firefox "studies,"
No you don't. On my S7 version all I had to do was the about:config fix. With the tab s4 I had to go to the add-ons site and activate an Enable button that was there instead of the Install button. No reason it should be any different in the computer distro. One or the other... most likely the latter, should work w/o mozilla 'studying' you.
Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail
The about:config fix works in Linux and Android, but not in Windows. The Mozilla update works in all OS, but not with ESR versions. They say that they're working on it. I was testing the about:config fix on my wife's Win10 box, and just as I was undoing it (because it did nothing) the update downloaded. And all was immediately fine. But she did have the "studies" thing enabled. Probably because she didn't know to disable it. <SNIP>
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