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Firefox disabled all add-ons because a certificate expired
"Jess Fertudei" wrote
| v53 on Win7 | | I just finally got sick of waiting and did the | xpinstall.signatures.required false. Closed the tab, closed FF (telling | it ok to multiple tabs). Opened again and did the restore last session, | and... | Nothing. Didn't help a bit. Adblock still a no go and even my setpoint | is disabled. I'm using 52.9, the last version that works on XP. I also put it on Win7-64. Works fine. Fully-functioning, pre-crippled extensions work fine. With that setting they just show a warning that they might be risky when opening the add-ons window. Since you only have 1 point newer anyway, you might want to just go back to 52.9. That number might seem old, but it's less than a year old and as far as I can tell, things have only got worse since then. I wa using 66 for awhile, out of curiosity, but it had less settings control than ever without actually working better. http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ Adblockers: Have you considered a HOSTS file? I use a HOSTS that blocks the major ad companies and trackers. I haven't seen ad for years, but I've never used an adblocker. Also, if a site works without script then there's no way for them to test for adblockers. Though some sites malfunction without script and I have to view them with no style. Unfortunately, a lot of the problems are due more to incompetence than restrictions. Most webmasters just don't know what they're doing and they're catering more to phones. Webmasters also keep changing their code, at a crazy rate. Very few commercial sites stay stable for more than a couple of months at a time. I visit BBC news and WashPo without script. But Boston globe just recently broke and I have to view it with no style because otherwise there's a menu covering 1/3 of the page. TheRegister.co.uk is fine without script, though recently it was broken. wired.com works fine... this month. Atlantic Monthly looks great, though it used to have headlines that ran together.... And so on. |
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Firefox disabled all add-ons because a certificate expired Newversion corrected problem
On 5/5/2019 10:33 PM, Mayayana wrote:
"Jess Fertudei" wrote | v53 on Win7 | | I just finally got sick of waiting and did the | xpinstall.signatures.required false. Closed the tab, closed FF (telling | it ok to multiple tabs). Opened again and did the restore last session, | and... | Nothing. Didn't help a bit. Adblock still a no go and even my setpoint | is disabled. I'm using 52.9, the last version that works on XP. I also put it on Win7-64. Works fine. Fully-functioning, pre-crippled extensions work fine. With that setting they just show a warning that they might be risky when opening the add-ons window. Since you only have 1 point newer anyway, you might want to just go back to 52.9. That number might seem old, but it's less than a year old and as far as I can tell, things have only got worse since then. I wa using 66 for awhile, out of curiosity, but it had less settings control than ever without actually working better. http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ Adblockers: Have you considered a HOSTS file? I use a HOSTS that blocks the major ad companies and trackers. I haven't seen ad for years, but I've never used an adblocker. Also, if a site works without script then there's no way for them to test for adblockers. Though some sites malfunction without script and I have to view them with no style. Unfortunately, a lot of the problems are due more to incompetence than restrictions. Most webmasters just don't know what they're doing and they're catering more to phones. Webmasters also keep changing their code, at a crazy rate. Very few commercial sites stay stable for more than a couple of months at a time. I visit BBC news and WashPo without script. But Boston globe just recently broke and I have to view it with no style because otherwise there's a menu covering 1/3 of the page. TheRegister.co.uk is fine without script, though recently it was broken. wired.com works fine... this month. Atlantic Monthly looks great, though it used to have headlines that ran together.... And so on. The the bug in Firefox was corrected and 66.0.4 allowed ALL of my addons to be become active. This included Clippings Adblock, Google Translate and a half dozen other addons. -- 2018: The year we learn to play the great game of Euchre |
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Firefox disabled all add-ons because a certificate expired New version corrected problem
Keith Nuttle wrote on 5/5/2019 :
On 5/5/2019 10:33 PM, Mayayana wrote: "Jess Fertudei" wrote | v53 on Win7 | | I just finally got sick of waiting and did the | xpinstall.signatures.required false. Closed the tab, closed FF (telling | it ok to multiple tabs). Opened again and did the restore last session, | and... | Nothing. Didn't help a bit. Adblock still a no go and even my setpoint | is disabled. I'm using 52.9, the last version that works on XP. I also put it on Win7-64. Works fine. Fully-functioning, pre-crippled extensions work fine. With that setting they just show a warning that they might be risky when opening the add-ons window. Since you only have 1 point newer anyway, you might want to just go back to 52.9. That number might seem old, but it's less than a year old and as far as I can tell, things have only got worse since then. I wa using 66 for awhile, out of curiosity, but it had less settings control than ever without actually working better. http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ Adblockers: Have you considered a HOSTS file? I use a HOSTS that blocks the major ad companies and trackers. I haven't seen ad for years, but I've never used an adblocker. Also, if a site works without script then there's no way for them to test for adblockers. Though some sites malfunction without script and I have to view them with no style. Unfortunately, a lot of the problems are due more to incompetence than restrictions. Most webmasters just don't know what they're doing and they're catering more to phones. Webmasters also keep changing their code, at a crazy rate. Very few commercial sites stay stable for more than a couple of months at a time. I visit BBC news and WashPo without script. But Boston globe just recently broke and I have to view it with no style because otherwise there's a menu covering 1/3 of the page. TheRegister.co.uk is fine without script, though recently it was broken. wired.com works fine... this month. Atlantic Monthly looks great, though it used to have headlines that ran together.... And so on. The the bug in Firefox was corrected and 66.0.4 allowed ALL of my addons to be become active. This included Clippings Adblock, Google Translate and a half dozen other addons. Why would I want to install 66 when it is crippled compared to 53? Really wondering if I can even trust Mozilla at all, anymore... |
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Firefox disabled all add-ons because a certificate expired
Mayayana wrote on 5/5/2019 :
"Jess Fertudei" wrote v53 on Win7 I just finally got sick of waiting and did the xpinstall.signatures.required false. Closed the tab, closed FF (telling it ok to multiple tabs). Opened again and did the restore last session, and... Nothing. Didn't help a bit. Adblock still a no go and even my setpoint is disabled. I'm using 52.9, the last version that works on XP. I also put it on Win7-64. Works fine. Fully-functioning, pre-crippled extensions work fine. With that setting they just show a warning that they might be risky when opening the add-ons window. Since you only have 1 point newer anyway, you might want to just go back to 52.9. That number might seem old, but it's less than a year old and as far as I can tell, things have only got worse since then. I wa using 66 for awhile, out of curiosity, but it had less settings control than ever without actually working better. http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ Adblockers: Have you considered a HOSTS file? I use a HOSTS that blocks the major ad companies and trackers. I haven't seen ad for years, but I've never used an adblocker. Also, if a site works without script then there's no way for them to test for adblockers. Though some sites malfunction without script and I have to view them with no style. Unfortunately, a lot of the problems are due more to incompetence than restrictions. Most webmasters just don't know what they're doing and they're catering more to phones. Webmasters also keep changing their code, at a crazy rate. Very few commercial sites stay stable for more than a couple of months at a time. I visit BBC news and WashPo without script. But Boston globe just recently broke and I have to view it with no style because otherwise there's a menu covering 1/3 of the page. TheRegister.co.uk is fine without script, though recently it was broken. wired.com works fine... this month. Atlantic Monthly looks great, though it used to have headlines that ran together.... And so on. would 52.9 install over top of 53.03 or do I have to go through all of the backups of everything uninstall and reinstall and such? 53 was working just fine. |
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Firefox disabled all add-ons because a certificate expired
"Jess Fertudei" wrote
| would 52.9 install over top of 53.03 or do I have to go through all of | the backups of everything uninstall and reinstall and such? 53 was | working just fine. In my experience the default is to leave the profile folder, so you can just uninstall one and install the other. I tried leaving 66 when I went back to 52.9, but 66 tried to take over, so I just removed it and still have my settings. |
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Firefox disabled all add-ons because a certificate expired New version corrected problem
"Keith Nuttle" wrote
| The the bug in Firefox was corrected and 66.0.4 allowed ALL of my addons | to be become active. This included Clippings Adblock, Google Translate | and a half dozen other addons. | Good to know, but in the time I was using 66 I didn't much like it compared to 52.9. I had to give up a lot of extension functionality and didn't find any way to remove tabs. There were also various minor irritations. For instance, the update options no longer include not checking for updates. And that was just with occasional use. I only tried it on my test machine that I use on an occasional basis. The addons I use are mainly NoScript, DownloadHelper, and various things for privacy and GUI repair. (Bringing back the status bar, removing the tab bar, etc.) I have a nice one called Secret Agent that offers lots of privacy options but never came out as a signed version or as a new-style crippled version. I think a lot of the functionality in those older style extensions is just blocked now in later versions. |
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Firefox disabled all add-ons because a certificate expired
On Sun, 5 May 2019 23:01:51 -0400, Mayayana wrote:
In my experience the default is to leave the profile folder, so you can just uninstall one and install the other. I tried leaving 66 when I went back to 52.9, but 66 tried to take over, so I just removed it and still have my settings. *This is the umpteenth time I've seen Mayayana ignore obvious facts.* o In doing so, he _consistently_ gives very bad (usually wrong) advice. I've often seen Mayayana offer such advice where I have to wonder why he consistently gives very bad advice, simply because he doesn't even _read_ or perhaps comprehend the facts in the very thread he's responding to Why bother with older FF versions when I reported a while ago in this very thread that the fix occurred something like a dozen hours ago? This is a common trait of Mayayana to miss obvious facts, where it happens so often that I have to wonder about his motives in giving such bad advice to others when he is clearly ignorant of the facts in the very thread he's posting to. Sigh. You can't fix willful ignorance sometimes. |
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Firefox disabled all add-ons because a certificate expired New version corrected problem
On Sun, 5 May 2019 22:39:57 -0400, Keith Nuttle wrote:
The the bug in Firefox was corrected and 66.0.4 allowed ALL of my addons to be become active. This included Clippings Adblock, Google Translate and a half dozen other addons. Hi Keith, I'm not sure why others haven't seen it, but I already reported on this fix a while ago, over in this post to this very thread: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/YH8RMeKLVQg/Ws7miQKyAAAJ Where there are still a couple of things open, such as o Android (no mention of iOS either), and, o Tor Browser Bundle I provided in the alt.os.linux thread my results with Tor and a few cites backing up the workaround for Tor Browsers over he https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.os.linux/Au1JwnKCz5c/fB6yrKtLBAAJ And here... https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.os.linux/Au1JwnKCz5c/RB-pphlNBAAJ The key technical question that I'm wondering about is how insecure did this problem make Tor Browsing for the past few days for the millions of people who aren't as well informed as we are on this problem (and who therefore were clueless while they were browsing with the TBB this weekend). Does anyone have an idea of how this affected Tor Browsers' privacy? |
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Firefox disabled all add-ons because a certificate expired
In article , Arlen G. Holder
wrote: Sigh. You can't fix willful ignorance sometimes. something you demonstrate time and time again. |
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Firefox disabled all add-ons because a certificate expired
On 5/3/19 10:32 PM, Arlen G. Holder wrote:
Firefox disabled all add-ons because a certificate expired https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/03/firefox-extension-add-on-cert/ The event occurred as the clock rolled over on UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, aka GMT or Greenwich Mean Time), and impacted users quickly narrowed it down to "expiration of intermediate signing cert" -- as it's described on Mozilla's bug tracker. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973 Whilst we all (im)patiently wait for Firefox to rush out a patch, install Brave from http://brave.com. It is very fast and has built in ad blocking. On first run it will give you a shot at importing all your settings from a browser of your choice (pick Firefox). |
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Firefox disabled all add-ons because a certificate expired
On Sun, 05 May 2019 23:48:12 -0400, nospam wrote:
something you demonstrate time and time again. Someday nospam, you're not going to post your drivel which is that of a child o Apparently not today though. |
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Firefox disabled all add-ons because a certificate expired
On Sun, 5 May 2019 22:15:17 -0700, T wrote:
Whilst we all (im)patiently wait for Firefox to rush out a patch, It's already long ago fixed on all but Android & the Tor Browser. o No word on iOS though (AFAIK) |
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Firefox disabled all add-ons because a certificate expired
In message , Jess
Fertudei writes: [] v53 on Win7 I just finally got sick of waiting and did the xpinstall.signatures.required false. Closed the tab, closed FF (telling it ok to multiple tabs). Opened again and did the restore last session, and... Nothing. Didn't help a bit. Adblock still a no go and even my setpoint is disabled. Any other sure fixes on this deal, yet? Apparently they have done a proper fix now, for those on the bleeding edge. Wonder if they'll ever do anything for the old versions? FWIW, I'm not aware that my 27.0.1 ever stopped working over the last few days, which is when I assume this hiccup happened - and I'm not aware of any of my addons not working, either: certainly not tab mix plus, downloadhelper, adblock plus (though like mayayana I use a hosts file for most of my adblocking), and several others. Interesting that just last weekend, my various newspapers all started to not work unless I disabled adblock (which I did not do) at the very same moment. It had to be contrived among the competitors... no way just dumb luck. If FF has been lying about the no update switch, how am I to believe that they're trashing of adblocks doesn't have too much coincidence to follow days behind. Again like Mayayana, I find View | No Style is needed more and more these days. Mainly to stop popovers covering the viewing window from top _and_ bottom; I wish page designers would realise we don't all run our browsers full screen, let alone on the 3k-pixels-wide systems they obviously design on. (And of course another of my bugbears - they also design for fixed width, so horizontal scrolling is something we have to do all the time now. HTML is not PDF!) I am new to tinfoil, well, except the google colored stuff, so I don't know what to think here. Just finally got a new ssd in the mail yesterday, but there's no way I want to clone the mess that is FF right now. [] -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf What's awful about weird views is not the views. It's the intolerance. If someone wants to worship the Duke of Edinburgh or a pineapple, fine. But don't kill me if I don't agree. - Tim Rice, Radio Times 15-21 October 2011. |
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Firefox disabled all add-ons because a certificate expired
On 5/5/19 11:28 PM, Arlen G. Holder wrote:
On Sun, 5 May 2019 22:15:17 -0700, T wrote: Whilst we all (im)patiently wait for Firefox to rush out a patch, It's already long ago fixed on all but Android & the Tor Browser. o No word on iOS though (AFAIK) I am on 66.0.3 for Linux and have not noticed a problem. I got an eMail today from a customer that suddenly started getting inundated with adds (uBlock Orgin stopped working). I told him to go to help and look for an update |
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Firefox disabled all add-ons because a certificate expired Newversion corrected problem
On 5/5/2019 10:56 PM, Jess Fertudei wrote:
Keith Nuttle wrote on 5/5/2019 : On 5/5/2019 10:33 PM, Mayayana wrote: "Jess Fertudei" wrote | v53 on Win7 | | I just finally got sick of waiting and did the | xpinstall.signatures.required false. Closed the tab, closed FF (telling | it ok to multiple tabs). Opened again and did the restore last session, | and... | Nothing. Didn't help a bit. Adblock still a no go and even my setpoint | is disabled. Â* I'm using 52.9, the last version that works on XP. I also put it on Win7-64. Works fine. Fully-functioning, pre-crippled extensions work fine. With that setting they just show a warning that they might be risky when opening the add-ons window. Â*Â* Since you only have 1 point newer anyway, you might want to just go back to 52.9. That number might seem old, but it's less than a year old and as far as I can tell, things have only got worse since then. I wa using 66 for awhile, out of curiosity, but it had less settings control than ever without actually working better. http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ Â*Â* Adblockers: Have you considered a HOSTS file? I use a HOSTS that blocks the major ad companies and trackers. I haven't seen ad for years, but I've never used an adblocker. Â*Â* Also, if a site works without script then there's no way for them to test for adblockers. Though some sites malfunction without script and I have to view them with no style. Â*Â* Unfortunately, a lot of the problems are due more to incompetence than restrictions. Most webmasters just don't know what they're doing and they're catering more to phones. Webmasters also keep changing their code, at a crazy rate. Very few commercial sites stay stable for more than a couple of months at a time. I visit BBC news and WashPo without script. But Boston globe just recently broke and I have to view it with no style because otherwise there's a menu covering 1/3 of the page. TheRegister.co.uk is fine without script, though recently it was broken. wired.com works fine... this month. Atlantic Monthly looks great, though it used to have headlines that ran together.... And so on. The the bug in Firefox was corrected and 66.0.4 allowed ALL of my addons to be become active.Â* This included Clippings Adblock, Google Translate and a half dozen other addons. Why would I want to install 66 when it is crippled compared to 53? Really wondering if I can even trust Mozilla at all, anymore... Because it is the latest version with all of the known security holes fixed. Most of the common addons now work with FF version 66.0.4. -- 2018: The year we learn to play the great game of Euchre |
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