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Suddenly Firefox 66.x disabled a couple of addons that I rely on. It kinda pissed me off, maybe a warning first. Anyway to block this action that still works in Firefox 66.x ?
This temporary fix worked for me in FF stable:
Set the preference xpinstall.signatures.required to false as Martin suggests above, then go to about:debugging. Check the box to enable add-on debugging. Then click Load Temporary Add-On. Browse to your Firefox profile in appdata:
C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\.default\extensions
In the extensions folder there are .xpi files, those are your extensions that you had. Load each one and don’t close Firefox until they fix this.
[copied from Reddit Firefox user feanturi]
DO the addons reenable automatically if you allow FF STudies? Or do you have to do that manually?
If studies is enabled it should do it automatically within six hours. After that you can check that it's there and then disable studies if you wish. Some are still reporting it doesn't help. https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox/DO the addons reenable automatically if you allow FF STudies? Or do you have to do that manually?
Certificate issue causing add-ons to be disabled or fail to install :
We rolled-out a fix for release, beta and nightly users on Desktop. The fix will be automatically applied in the background within the next few hours, you don’t need to take active steps.
5 minutes ago Firefox prompted me to update the browser saying it was "critically out of date." So I downloaded the update to upgrade from 61 to 66, and now my extension is back in action.@FeuerFrei
Did you try the link from my previous post? No need to enable studies and it fixes instantly, it's signed by mozilla.
No offense but you linked directly to a download and the guys comment has a link to the fix on a site called "hacker news". That doesn't really inspire confidence IMHO. Plus in the mozilla blog it says "There are a number of work-arounds being discussed in the community. These are not recommended as they may conflict with fixes we are deploying. We’ll let you know when further updates are available that we recommend, and appreciate your patience. (May 4, 15:01 EST) "This worked for me: https://storage.googleapis.com/moz-fx-normandy-prod-addons/extensions/hotfix-update-xpi-intermediate@mozilla.com-1.0.2-signed.xpi
It's from Samuel Vourela's comment in https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox/
Enabling FF studies didn't do anything for me for hours...
5 minutes ago Firefox prompted me to update the browser saying it was "critically out of date." So I downloaded the update to upgrade from 61 to 66, and now my extension is back in action.
(Time to disable Studies.)
The URL and hotfix is not particularly suspicious to me, see below, the only concern is that you're installing it manually in an unsanctioned way. I'm not suggesting this is better than enabling studies, by all means, try that first. I did too -No offense but you linked directly to a download and the guys comment has a link to the fix on a site called "hacker news". That doesn't really inspire confidence IMHO. Plus in the mozilla blog it says "There are a number of work-arounds being discussed in the community. These are not recommended as they may conflict with fixes we are deploying. We’ll let you know when further updates are available that we recommend, and appreciate your patience. (May 4, 15:01 EST) "
Thank you, worked for me!This worked for me: https://storage.googleapis.com/moz-fx-normandy-prod-addons/extensions/hotfix-update-xpi-intermediate@mozilla.com-1.0.2-signed.xpi
It's from Samuel Vourela's comment in https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox/
Enabling FF studies didn't do anything for me for hours...
If software developers can't get these (relatively simple?) things right, it really makes you wonder and worry about "self-driving vehicles", doesn't it?Yeah, upgraded to 66.0.4 earlier today and turned studies back off. Addons are working normally now. My laptop actually got hit with one of those tech support scam ads telling you to call a number for help of your "infected" system. One link on what I thought was a reputable news website and boom, tab loads this message 30+ times in less than a minute, pegs cpu to 100% till I end firefox in task manager.
This snafu is unacceptable especially where it kills no script and adblockers.