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Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

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Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

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Post by zlynx »

chii wrote: post #151
staticassertion wrote: post #102

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Well, it's not like they're hoping it will crash. Presumably they're hoping it won't . Wouldn't it be more irresponsible to deploy to every user without first testing it out?

that's what the stable/experimental channels are for - a user who don't want to be tested on (such as a business user) can easily be sure that they are getting a stable release and their settings won't update under them. Experimental/beta channels can have these changes pushed to it, since that's implied by the name, and those people who like living on the edge of new features do so knowingly. Let the users control t…

Users who intentionally run beta / nightly are not normal users. How many of them run on cheap "desktop" computers they bought on sale at Target, do you think?

Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

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Post by eevee »

Karunamon wrote: post #202
floatingatoll wrote: post #116

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Note that these statistics would, presumably, exclude all users who disable telemetry in Firefox. Since many of those outraged at the interruption to addons seem to overlap frequently with those who object to and disable telemetry and studies on principle, their departure over this incident could well have no impact whatsoever on the metrics you linked above. It must be a nightmare for the Firefox team to have a mino…

Who's fault is that, at the end of the day? Mozilla didn't have to structure their addon system in such a way that their (in)actions could disable the addons of every Firefox user on the planet . Mozilla did not have to abuse the studies mechanism (also on by default) to ship a workaround. Mozilla did not have to disable the option that would let me work around this problem by myself (which is going to cause me no en…

If you want a browser that never changes anything, doesn't know what its users use it for, and has no opinions on what kinds of plugins you install...

Might I interest you in Internet Explorer 6?

Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

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Post by ComodoHacker »

adjagu wrote: post #161
gruez wrote: post #97

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How do you do this?

From an updated Firefox navigate to Preferences -> Privacy & Security -> Security -> Certificates -> View Certificates Now find: Mozilla Corporation signingca1.addons.mozilla.org Select signingca1.addons.mozilla.org and then choose export. This is what you would import into the older version of Firefox.

BTW that certificate list if fairly long, has no scrollbar and no search box. That's a bad UI.

Is there a way to report this without spending hours to register at Bugzilla and file a proper bug report?

Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

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Post by omeid2 »

nitemice wrote: post #224
baalimago wrote: post #82

About time. Embarrassing bug. The only reason i didn't permanently swap browser is because of the lack of alternatives since none has the functionality I apply through the addons.

I switched to the Dev build[1] with 'xpinstall.signatures.required = false', and now that it's fixed I don't know if I'll go back. There seems to be a bunch of new features in Dev that I assume will arrive in Firefox eventually, but everything else being equal, I think I'll stick with it. I'll probably turn 'xpinstall.signatures.required' back to true though. [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

It is actually much much faster than Firefox "standard". Might stick with it too!

Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

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Post by feanaro »

jopsen wrote: post #112
wvenable wrote: post #100

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Yeah, this also worked for me on Android. Not sure why the downvotes.

You're better off waiting a few more hours that disabling important security features.

We've lived without the walled garden for more than 10 years, I'm sure we can manage a few more days.

Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

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Post by feanaro »

eevee wrote: post #249
rnd0 wrote: post #208

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In this case, I was more insecure being subjected to advertising networks (and the malware carried on them) because of Firefox's mistake which meant I wasn't able to load ublock origin. I'm also not sure how many of those "security patches" are intended to make my browsing experience safer, or simply meant to implement bizarre policies that might blow up in my face at any time (as this certificate issue has). It's a…

This "bizarre policy" was software signing, which is in fact a security feature. I don't understand what "getting their act together" means here, when you're posting it on an announcement that the problem has already been fixed. Should Firefox proactively remove all security features that risk ever posing some modicum of inconvenience to users? Because that would be... all of them.

Firefox could allow people to sign their own add-ons. Let's not pretend that the terms "software signing" and "walled garden" are synonymous.

Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

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Post by mnm1 »

nitemice wrote: post #224
baalimago wrote: post #82

About time. Embarrassing bug. The only reason i didn't permanently swap browser is because of the lack of alternatives since none has the functionality I apply through the addons.

I switched to the Dev build[1] with 'xpinstall.signatures.required = false', and now that it's fixed I don't know if I'll go back. There seems to be a bunch of new features in Dev that I assume will arrive in Firefox eventually, but everything else being equal, I think I'll stick with it. I'll probably turn 'xpinstall.signatures.required' back to true though. [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

This is what I run and that fix worked. Are they planning on patching the dev build anytime soon? Doesn't look like there is an update for it. At least one can turn that stupid feature off until there is.

Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

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Post by fraudsyndrome »

wdr1 wrote: post #90

This is pretty bad for Firefox. I wonder how much people straight up & left for Chrome as a result of it.

I was on the reddit thread when it happened - was super confused as I just updated my firefox and it happened at a very similar time frame so I assumed it was from the update

I personally found the issue trivial, my main addon is ublock origin. There was a workaround using about:debugging and installing UBO on there which worked so it's not like the fix was a long process.

Being committed to a single browser, if anyone was using firefox for as long as me, I can't fathom someone leaving their main browser over something like this. I haven't been using it for THAT long but what if Chrome did something like this too? Then they'd move to another browser that's not FF/Chrome?

Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

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Post by nikbackm »

neogodless wrote: post #107
luke-stanley wrote: post #96

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I use containers too. I didn't loose any data after I enabled dev mode and added the extension back. Perhaps you removed the existing extension first and lost data that way?

It's odd - on my laptops, my multi-container settings were preserved, but I opened firefox on my desktop last night and they had vanished. I did not remove any add-ons myself.

Same here.

Only difference is that I restarted the desktop Firefox and also enabled Shield studies to get the temporary fix. On the laptop I just upgraded to 66.0.4 and only then restarted it.

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