[RndTbl] Firefox extensions broken for everyone

Hartmut W Sager hwsager at marityme.net
Sat May 4 16:39:48 CDT 2019


I got the Firefox notice late yesterday evening.  When I clicked on
details, it turned out I have no extensions/add-ons at all, so we are
receiving these notices even if not applicable.

Hartmut W Sager - Tel +1-204-339-8331


On Sat, 4 May 2019 at 00:55, Trevor Cordes <trevor at tecnopolis.ca> wrote:

> No, it's not just you.
>
> 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.
>
>
> https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/05/04/0457201/a-glitch-is-breaking-all-firefox-extensions
>
> Let's see how fast the distros get a patched version from upstream to
> fix this...
>
> Letting your cert expire... not one of Mozilla's brightest moments.
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