When this happened, I just thought it was a natural continuity to Mozilla disable all Firefox add-ons, because what happened to Dissenter.
Good thing Firefox isn't my only browser.
Firefox Disabled All My Extentions
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Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions
#82Here's what I don't understand, I was using an older version of Firefox (version 56) because there are some addons that I need that don't have an update in version 6x. And even with "no updates" set to "true", and set to not look for updates from the web, my browser was "still" hit by this and disabled????
Sooo............
Is Firefox now going into everyone's browsers and reseting what they don't like and making you doing things their way now????
If so, time to get a new browser if they are going on to Peoples PC's, even those who set them to not update, and forcing changes. I thought MS was bad with what they do, but now Firefox is reseting my browser remotely??? :(
Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions
#83I had an install of SeaMonkey with NoScript installed and just have been using that - privacy settings all locked down - no problems, have been using it for more than half an hour - couldn't be bothered fiddling around and worrying about it.
Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions
#84Bugzilla 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.
Major bugs like this are uncommon but they happen. I know they're working on the fix. There is nothing more they could do than to fix the issue and prevent it from happening again. This is not an intentional move, shit happens. I wouldn't lose trust so quickly. They're trying to make addons more safe and secure.
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Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions
#85I had an install of SeaMonkey with NoScript installed and just have been using that - privacy settings all locked down - no problems, have been using it for more than half an hour - couldn't be bothered fiddling around and worrying about it.
They are having a tough day - check out "When Firefox Extensions Goes Down" on YouTube. Have to feel for them :)
Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions
#86Idk in others platforms but on android i just fix (bugzilla post) that by installing version 66.02 and change value in about:config for: "xpinstall.signatures.required false".
In Android I would suggest using Fennec (which can be downloaded using F-Droid). On my android phone this uh, bug? does not seem to affect anything and Mozilla's telemetry is disabled by default. Granted, you can disable it manually in any firefox browser by typing telemetry in the search box in about:config and setting the values you do not feel comfortable with there to false.
Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions
#87I am not responsible for firefox add-ons
After this time chrome ..! Trust's over.
What's there to trust in Chrome? Google not only gets to see everything you are doing that interests them in the browser but also refuses to allow full functionality and/or use of various extensions (depending on the extension) that are available in firefox. Besides, would you trust a browser by a corporation who tries to hinder those who seek to take control over their mobile devices, try to get spyware into everything and has their search engine programmed to allow them to decide what information you have access to on an individual basis to only let you know what they feel you should know?
Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions
#88I imagine chrome user numbers will grow tomorrow, for better or worse, google chrome team would never let something like this happen
> for better or worse, google chrome team would never let something like this happen A few years ago, Chrome crashed for everyone on the date daylight saving time started (a quick search tells me it probably was https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=287821 ). So not only would they let something like this happen, it did already happen.
That was only in one timezone, on a VERY old Android build, and not a clearly obvious bug.
Forcing signing by one key, with no way to disable it literally screams "THIS WILL BACKFIRE"
In fact when Mozilla initially proposed this, they were told this would happen by many users. They ignored that warning x claiming they knew better. The rest is history.
Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions
#89Can Firefox be called open source any longer?
Users can't inspect the code or contribute to the code, which is what addons used to do.
Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions
#90yes i am