Firefox Armag-addon
 

I'm curious as to the number of our illustrious membership and honored visitors who were affected by Firefox's certificate expiration which resulted in the disabling of numerous add-ons today. The problem commenced at 0000 hrs. GMT and was patched here in the American Midwest at ~ 2000. The problem was world-wide and made browsing potentially dangerous, since many anti-virus, script protection, and ad-blocker software was rendered ineffective in the Mozilla product. Were you affected?

- Ed

Yes. That made browsing painful.
I had forgotten just how much ads and other crap my add-ons were stopping.
So glad it has been fixed.

Yes, I have been affected.. Still not fixed here for me yet either! :ugh:

The fix was supposed to work via studies. I checked the box to let Firefox install studies but nothing happens. When I go back to the page later it has unchecked itself so no wonder it won't work!

My work around for now was to download the Firefox Nightly version which has the addons working. :bored:

There is a quick fix while you wait for the update.

• Go to about:config and accept the warning.
• Find xpinstall.signatures.required
• Toggle it from TRUE to FALSE

The line will chang from default boolean true to modified boolean false.
All the add-ons will now work again.

Terry Dactil,

Thanks for trying to help! I tried that.. Mine was already on false! I changed it to True and then back to false.. doesn't seem to have changed anything though. No addons have appeared. I also tried another fix App Normandy interval from 21600 to 100 and restarted Firefox but no change there either. Also tried new download and reinstall but no joy. :ooh:

Try this one then.
It worked for me, but needs to be done each time you run Firefox.

Hello Terry, I have tried both of your suggestions but somehow or other both Ghostery and AD Block plus have been deleted from my download file.

I have tried re-downloading both but Firefox refuses to let me ... I am NOT happy.

I have just found this:- No doubt "We will see" but I am not going to hold my breath!!!

The fix update from Mozilla has arrived and installed itself on my computer.
about:studies now showshttps://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....52552b9f5c.jpg
I have removed all the temporary changes I made to about;config/debugging & studies and everything appears to be working normally now.

They may well fix things before I find the App Data files! :(


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Strangely,

I have the Hotfixes on Firefox Nightly that worked anyway, but still No Hotfixes on Firefox Quantum 66.03.

Sheesh! :confused:

Well hush my mouth, the fix suddenly appeared and I am back to normal, well the computer I mean
is ...not me.... some say I am a tad strange :O

I have also removed the temp fixes suggested by Terry but it was very good of him to post them as I
would never in a million years have been able to think of them.

Finally got it working after following a link on Twitter..


https://storage.googleapis.com/moz-f...0.2-signed.xpi

Above link in post #12 has done the trick. Needed to reload page as well but at least this link restores matters.

Can confirm the link in post #12 worked for me too. Cheers, Out of Trim!

+1 rep... :ok:

Yes, #12 has worked for me as well. Thanks OOT.

Worked for me too. Thanks OOT ! :ok:

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Yes I've used FF on both Linux & Win 7/8.1 for years: Mozilla as an organization clearly have grave deficiencies in respect of the maintenance and support of a browser that I have relied on. I need the addons that these "Group of People" have screwed up. (FF 66.03) and I'm changing browser forthwith.

CAT III

All most curious. I've been using the current version of Firefox before and right through this thread without any hint of the reported problems. Perhaps both the problem and the fix took place while I was sleeping down here in AUS... If so, that's rather fortunate by the look of it.

The Firefox update that showed up today, 66.0.4, appears to have fixed things. It allowed me to re-download and re-install adblock plus.

Makes life a lot easier here on Proone!

I just updated and got version 66.0.5! :cool: