Firefox add-ons
 

Most people using firefox worldwide will have noticed that all their add-ons are not working today.

This is due to a certificate now being out of date.

All sorts of fixes are being touted around the web, but none have worked for me, and a few were obvious malware.

"** IMPORTANT NEWS FOR FIREFOX EXTENSION USERS ** Firefox users of the FBP extension, ought to know there is a bug in the Firefox system that is causing lots of Firefox extensions to be disabled, including FB Purity, basically a security certificate that Mozilla Firefox used to sign the add-ons expired on 4th May 2019 at midnight UTC.

You can read more about it here: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/new...dy1Yz4TJqS9yTg "

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No issues with Lastpass and Ublock here.

I don't use that many addons so i am considering moving to the New Microsoft Edge or Vivaldi.

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Its all back working now.

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No its not, mine are still all disabled.

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We're rolling out a fix for the issues with add-ons right now! It will automatically be applied, so you don't need to take any steps to make add-ons work again & all your data should be unaffected.

Again, we're really sorry. More to come soon.

---------- Post added at 16:04 ---------- Previous post was at 16:01 ----------

Perhaps I was lucky and got fixed early on.

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Mine are back with Caution warnings. But as I have used them for years I trust them.

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And mine never stopped working strangely unless it was during the night.

---------- Post added at 19:22 ---------- Previous post was at 18:13 ----------

I have just lost most of my addons, infact it looks like they have been uninstalled!

May think about changing to Vivaldi now.

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Should find them in "Legacy Extensions".


Suddenly seeing ads on various websites where I didn't before.

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Yes i found them there.

Having setup Vivaldi how i like it i can say it seems a very nice browser, i may try and stick with it as i don't have a reason to use Firefox and Vivaldi just feels better at the moment and i am using all the same addons apart from the FVD speedial because Vivaldi has a nice one built in.

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This may be the reason for the differences.
Link.

I changed the setting and within minutes the addon/certificate problem was resolved.

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Still not working here, i haven't changed any settings, currently very happy with my replacement browser so we will see if i return to Firefox in a day or so when the addons work again.

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I added them back using the debugging option (only had two, so not a big issue).

They will stay active until I restart FF, which I dont do very often, so we'll see what happens when I do.

I'm not running the latest (still on 56.0.2) so I dont know if that will make a difference or not.

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Mine was OK until the early hours of this morning. Now addons disabled and enabling active studies not worked. Think i'll just wait for it to get fixed (hopefully). I'm on 66.0.3.

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And lo and behold a couple of hours later and they're back.

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Mine are still not coming back by themselves.