Firefox Addons Being Disabled Due to an Expired Certificate
By Lawrence Abrams
May 3, 2019 11:18 PM

Mozilla Firefox users are discovering that all of their addons were suddenly disabled. It turns out that this is being caused by an expired intermediary certificate used to sign Mozilla addons.

In numerous reports on Reddit, Twitter, and bug reports on bugzilla, users were stating that their Mozilla addons were suddenly disabled with a message stating that they "could be verified for use in Firefox".

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/so...ed-certificate/


This cost me a few hours I will never get back. The quick and simple fix was in the comments section posted by CmmTch:
(I ran the fix linked under [1])


Hat tip to
CmmTch - 37 minutes ago
How hard can it be to keep up with renewing a certificate(s) when you are Mozilla? It's not Steve Job in a garage, an error like this isn't a software problem/issue, it's an easily prevented amateurish mistake that affected who knows how many FF users. I tried their fix of 'allowing Studies', nothing happened, the study never flowed to me. I found this blog
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/...ons-in-firefox/ The 3rd response in that blog has a fix, it worked for me after installing, rebooting, was able to reinstall ABP (Adblock Plus with no issues)

Zitat

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Samuel Vuorela wrote on May 4, 2019 at 9:20 am:

Why not just post a link to the fix that can be installed WITHOUT enabling Studies? This sounds like a clever plan to get more people to share their data via Studies…

The fix in question can be installed by clicking this link [1]. It’s signed by Mozilla.

Thanks to user gpm at Hacker News, who posted this tip [2].

[1] https://storage.googleapis.com/moz-fx-no....0.2-signed.xpi
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19826903

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