temporary fix for disabled Firefox extensions

[dns1983 at riseup.net]

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/cae46a70e91e5438ee79974043843470128d28aeb1f18345c1a38d586c8e4184/https%3A//tinyurl.com/moz-ext-cert

This is what Giorgio Maone, the author of No script, suggests.

Cheers
Gigi


Il 5 maggio 2019 15:31:06 CEST, Greg Newby <gbnewby at 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-firefox/
>
>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 at 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.
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