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Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

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Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

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Post by livueta »

Yep. +1 frequency.

It's not like I was running an old version of FF with XUL extensions or anything like that, either - latest version, addons properly signed, all added from Mozilla site.

On top of that, attempts to re-add extensions via https://addons.mozilla.org result in "Download failed. Please check your connection." errors. This makes me suspect that there's something up with Mozilla inf.

There are definitely some good arguments in favor of Mozilla-signed addons, but events like this that expose an (apparent) SPoF are less than great. If only running one of the Firefox forks didn't involve getting security patches late...

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#5

Post by dirtgrub »

dirtgrub wrote: post #3

Same same. Without ad-blockers and other add-ons, I feel like my glasses are broken.

Fun fact: This happened on one machine of several running Firefox. No idea why. Need to go deeper into configs and break more stupid crap? I wonder if copying over configs from a working machine would fix it. Blech.

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#7

Post by neogodless »

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 setting my clock in the past, but that did not fix the issue for me. (Clock was previously auto w/ daylight savings time enabled.)

Super interesting to watch /r/firefox go from 3.8k active/online users to 5.6k over the past half hour...

Edit: As mentioned below, there are GitHub/Bugzilla entries. They seem to be aware and starting to work towards a fix, though the explanation of the problem hasn't emerged yet.

https://github.com/mozilla/addons/issues/978

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

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Post by pedrocr »

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.
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