Firefox broken

[likesToLick 10,216]

It's not just you!

Mozilla has just made a massive foul-up with Firefox,  causing it to disable and lock out all extensions.

This includes all of the security protections like "noscript",  "adblock plus" and "https everywhere."

Apparently the company is working on an urgent fix.

Meanwhile,  I recommend people stay away from any of the more dodgy sites you might occasionally use,  such as porn tubes,  web galleries etc.

[2prnot2p 1,066]

This is why I don't update Firefox as often as the updates are available.  I'm using Firefox 60.  I think they're up to 65 or so.  One techie, a Systems Analyst at Ford, agreed with me that these insanely often updates are not really necessary.  

At some point I do go to a newer version.  For example, I used Firefox 43 and finally updated to 60.  I skipped all versions in between with no ill effect at all.  These companies have made people paranoid about updating. 

Edited May 4, 2019 by 2prnot2p

[hentaixt 1,581]

For now, there is at least one workaround, but it only applies if you're using the Firefox Developer or Nightly build. If you look under "about:config" (if you don't know what this is, you probably shouldn't try it) and set the "xpinstall.signatures.required" value to False, then your extensions will start working again.

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1 hour ago, hentaixt said:

it only applies if you're using the Firefox Developer or Nightly build

I can confirm that this does not work with the regular build.  I tried setting it just in case,  but my version of Firefox just ignored it. I'm going to wait for the patch rather than re-installing firefox with the developer version. 

Edited May 4, 2019 by likesToLick
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2 hours ago, 2prnot2p said:

I'm using Firefox 60.  I think they're up to 65 or so.

My broken version is 66.0.3.

I agree,  they went completely insane with updates and version numbers.   It's still one of the best browsers,  but they drive people insane with breaking stuff all the time.

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Good news.

Version 66.0.4 got deployed to my PC this morning and the problem is fixed.  🙂

[Guest UnabashedUser]

i'm happy with Opera. You also get a FREE vpn as a plugin. Has more options than FFox. I'm done with them since the last crash.

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3 hours ago, UnabashedUser said:

i'm happy with Opera. You also get a FREE vpn as a plugin. Has more options than FFox. I'm done with them since the last crash.

Thanks,  I must check it out.