Firefox Extension Deactivated

[Diggs]

Mozilla is having certificate problems and all(?) extensions have been deactivated. They say it was only on some machines but I think it is all machines. I saw mine shutdown a few hours ago.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-add-ons-disabled-en-masse-after-mozilla-certificate-issue/

 

[Porthos]

Mozilla is having certificate problems and all(?) extensions have been deactivated. They say it was only on some machines but I think it is all machines. I saw mine shutdown a few hours ago.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-add-ons-disabled-en-masse-after-mozilla-certificate-issue/

No issues but I have not closed my browser in a couple of days. Don't know if that is what saved me or not.

 

[Larry Sabo]

What a pain in the butt! BitWarden as well as all my other beloved extensions are not available because of this. Had to switch to Chrome until they fix this bloody mess!

 

[Markverhyden]

Hadn't opened mine in a few days, just saw this surprise.

 

[carmen617]

Hmm, my uBlock Origin and LastPass were both disabled last night, but they are back working fine tonight. Maybe you need to check for Firefox updates?

 

[Markverhyden]

I just launched FF again and it looks good.

 

[Larry Sabo]

Mine is up-to-date, and there are no add-on updates.

 

[GreyWolf]

Ghacks.net covered this info and I was like in my case who cares I write protected my extensions to avoid this crap cause really I am not going to endure the crap at the end of youtube videos ever again.

 

[Moltuae]

Happened on a few of my computers but, curiously, not all of them.

It's been dubbed "armagadd-on" 2.0 because, apparently, it nearly happened 3 years:
https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/03/firefox-extension-add-on-cert/

 

[Diggs]

Mine are still blocked. Hmm.....

 

[Your PCMD]

Its funny because at the bottom of FF it says:

Thanks for choosing Firefox and supporting an independent web. You're awesome!

Anyway, @Diggs you can re-enable the addons/extensions. Just go to about:addons and then click on the link that says show more about disabled addons. Once there, click on any extension and they all will be re-enabled. At least that worked for me.

 

[Diggs]

you can re-enable the addons/extensions

I've done that a couple of times this morning already and nothing. Hmm...... I've removed it also and when downloading new it won't. It tells me to "Download failed. Please check your connection.". WTF?

 

[dannyict]

installed this and it's working again
https://storage.googleapis.com/moz-...xpi-intermediate@mozilla.com-1.0.2-signed.xpi

 

[Your PCMD]

What version? 66.0.3 (64-bit) is what Im using.

 

[dannyict]

same version here

 

[Diggs]

What version? 66.0.3 (64-bit) is what Im using.

Same but I had "Studies" turned off. I just turned it on.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox/

 

[Larry Sabo]

installed this and it's working again
https://storage.googleapis.com/moz-...xpi-intermediate@mozilla.com-1.0.2-signed.xpi

Thanks! That did the trick!

 

[nlinecomputers]

This is what happens when your browser runs its own independent certificate stack. Chrome uses the OS's certificate stack.

 

[Porthos]

Mozilla has released Firefox 66.0.4 to resolve this issue:

Add-ons disabled or failing to install in Firefox

 

[Alexey]

This is what happens when your browser runs its own independent certificate stack. Chrome uses the OS's certificate stack.

This strikes me as assuming that OS certificate stack is somehow significantly more reliable or less prone to botched updates.