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Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

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Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

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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.

only on dev builds

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#22

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…

Over 10,000 now.

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#25
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.

You need to be on nightly, dev, or ESR for this to work.

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#27
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.

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Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#28

Bugzilla issue here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973 It's a signing cert failure, not an intentional move. Still... this is going to destroy user trust in Firefox.

> Still... this is going to destroy user trust in Firefox.

The bug name ("armagadd-on" 2.0) is quite fitting :)

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#29
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…

Restarting Firefox is not necessary for this to happen. It happened to me while streaming video a few minutes ago. I use containers and I was logged out of my account, since containers were disabled.

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#30
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…

Restarting Firefox is not necessary for this to happen. It happened to me while streaming video a few minutes ago. I use containers and I was logged out of my account, since containers were disabled.

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