There's a new version of Firefox that should fix most of the problems that happened over the weekend

[thewayne]

The solution is to download the new edition and restart your browser, and you SHOULD be good. You shouldn't uninstall your add-ins/extensions. Personally, I have a feeling that this update isn't an absolute fix and we're going to have another Firefox update later this week. Just a hunch. But this should get most of your extensions back up and running. I was fortunate in that it only disabled one of mine, and it was a pretty trivial one.

The problem was that they let a security certificate expire, which caused a bunch of extensions to become unsigned and forced them to stop working. Certificates can be quite fiddly to work with, and chaos ensued. We'll see how well their fix worked. They worked hard to get it out before the business week started, so we shall see.

https://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-fix-restores-broken-browser-extensions-but-not-everyone/

Comments

[silveradept]

Good that they got it fixed in a hurry.

[thewayne]

As if Chrome isn't eating enough of its lunch, yeah - they had to get a fix out before Monday!

[murakozi]

I ran into the issue on two computers. A third one never had it crop up. Fortunately, the workaround to disable the requirement for addon signing got things working for me again. I really don't like surfing the web without ublock origin running.

I'm not really thrilled with the way Firefox has been managed in recent years.

[thewayne]

The problem is the field has narrowed greatly.  Microsoft has left the field, opting for a Chrome engine as have several others.  So you've got Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and a smattering of others.  I don't like Chrome because they auto-update without notifying you, and it's Google, so you don't know how much spying they're doing on you.  I'm not too keen on Safari because they're a little too hand-holdy.  Opera I've used before and it's OK.  I keep Epic around when I want to do something without leaving bread crumbs, even though it's Chrome-based.  But those three engines are a huge percentage of the market.