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Firefox is about to lose a ton of its users over this. I saw this on a family member's computer just now, couldn't get ublock origin installed or any extension

by tekni5 7y ago

Firefox is about to lose a ton of its users over this. I saw this on a family member's computer just now, couldn't get ublock origin installed or any extension for that matter. Had to install Chrome for them. This has to be some type of a bug, every extension gets disabled with zero notice and cannot be re-downloaded. I'm not seeing it myself yet, but haven't restarted firefox in a few hours. Has anyone tried disabling xpinstall.signatures.required in about:config? Saw someone mention it elsewhere, but didn't try it in time.

SAI_Peregrinus 7y ago
Disabling xpinstall.signatures.required works.
- dmitrygr 7y ago
  only on dev builds
  - Kurkl 7y ago
    the same happened to me and I am running Linux that sucks Im reaaly thinking in going to chromium
- mmore 7y ago
  You need to be on nightly, dev, or ESR for this to work.
  - pepa65 7y ago
    It works on regular installs. I'm on 66.0.3 from the Ubuntu 18.04's repo. From about:config set xpinstall.signatures.required to True.
- deleted 7y ago
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kmundnic 7y ago
Restarting Firefox is not necessary for this to happen. It happened to me while streaming video a few minutes ago. I use containers and I was logged out of my account, since containers were disabled.
- deleted 7y ago
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- tekni5 7y ago
  Looks like it's a certificate issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973