Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 118 posts

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#12

Post by dirtgrub »

pedrocr wrote: post #9
neogodless wrote: post #7

Yes - see https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bkcjoa/all_of_my_a... and https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bk54mu/addonsexten... Cannot tell if it's related to https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bjwz8n/addon_polic... (Says new Add-On Policy effective June 10th, 2019, so shouldn't be causing this. But...) As mentioned elsewhere, seems like when your clock hits 5/4 midnight UTC, you're done. I tried…

The "fix" in the second link is amusing. The user had the clock wrong so the bug hit sooner. Adjusting the clock to the correct time "fixed" it but the issue is probably now back. Too bad there wasn't a root cause analysis of that failure. We wouldn't be having the widespread issue.

Somebody somewhere is going to feel silly and shamefully flip the 'more magic' switch back, or so I suspect.

Clearly resetting your date is a "fix" in the temporal sense that it works until you apparently hit the magic deadline again, but I'm curious why this only hit one of my machines. Pretty sure I was running the same FF version on both, but not certain. Again wondering if it's due to a difference in the configs, since I've 'modified' those at different times with different lists of needless crap to disable.

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#15

Post by tekni5 »

Firefox is about to lose a ton of its users over this. I saw this on a family member's computer just now, couldn't get ublock origin installed or any extension for that matter. Had to install Chrome for them.

This has to be some type of a bug, every extension gets disabled with zero notice and cannot be re-downloaded.

I'm not seeing it myself yet, but haven't restarted firefox in a few hours.

Has anyone tried disabling xpinstall.signatures.required in about:config? Saw someone mention it elsewhere, but didn't try it in time.

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#18

Post by SAI_Peregrinus »

tekni5 wrote: post #15

Firefox is about to lose a ton of its users over this. I saw this on a family member's computer just now, couldn't get ublock origin installed or any extension for that matter. Had to install Chrome for them. This has to be some type of a bug, every extension gets disabled with zero notice and cannot be re-downloaded. I'm not seeing it myself yet, but haven't restarted firefox in a few hours. Has anyone tried disabli…

Disabling xpinstall.signatures.required works.

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#19

Post by xvector »

I think this fail-closed behavior is more of a security issue than the one it is trying to solve. All of my security add-ons - Privacy Badger, NoScript, Decentraleyes, and many more were disabled. Even worse, it happened without notice to the user.

One moment I was browsing the internet (just barely) secured by these add-ons, and the next moment, all of them disappeared (without warning) and I only noticed when I saw my password manager was missing.

Post reply on HN