[RndTbl] Roundtable Digest, Vol 173, Issue 1

[Vijay Sankar]

On 5/4/19 12:00 PM, roundtable-request at muug.ca wrote:
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>     1. Firefox extensions broken for everyone (Trevor Cordes)
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> Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 00:54:21 -0500
> From: Trevor Cordes <trevor at tecnopolis.ca>
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> Subject: [RndTbl] Firefox extensions broken for everyone
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> No, it's not just you.
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> As of a few hours ago a cert built into Firefox that handles extensions
> (which are all signed now) expired (doh!!) causing Firefox to complain
> to everyone their extensions are at risk or disabled.
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> https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/05/04/0457201/a-glitch-is-breaking-all-firefox-extensions
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> Let's see how fast the distros get a patched version from upstream to
> fix this...
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> Letting your cert expire... not one of Mozilla's brightest moments.
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There was a suggestion in the OpenBSD mailing list (misc@) to change

xpinstall.signatures.required

in about:config to false and also a suggestion to look additional details at

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox/

Hope this is useful info.

Vijay

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Vijay Sankar
ForeTell Technologies Limited
vsankar at foretell.ca