If you're running Firefox, there's a massive glitch disabling some add-in extensions

[thewayne]

Some or all extensions are being disabled. You get a warning, but re-installing the program doesn't make it work again. This is a known bug, and a ticket has been submitted. It will get fixed, but it will require a patch to be issued, i.e. a new release of Firefox, so we're just going to have to wait for it to be fixed.

It's a bit of an overstatement to say ALL Firefox extensions are breaking, but a lot are. My main one is Adblock+, and it's just fine.

In the words of the Bard, shit happens.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/03/a-glitch-is-breaking-all-firefox-extensions/

Comments

[silveradept]

Got in spades, since I have a lot of Firefox involved in my browsing habits, but thankfully, now that the fix is out, it'll be a couple updates and we'll be ready to go again.

What I want to know is how something that mission critical managed to escape notice until it was too late.

[thewayne]

You occasionally see companies let their domain registration lapse - same thing.  Head scratcher.  Usually it won't happen twice, until it does.