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All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert

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1318 points xvector | 1 comments | 04 May 19 01:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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xvector ◴[04 May 19 01:34 UTC] No.19823709[source]▶
Looks like all extensions have been disabled for all Firefox users.

I think this fail-closed behavior is more of a security issue than the one it is trying to solve. All of my security add-ons - Privacy Badger, NoScript, Decentraleyes, and many more were disabled. Even worse, it happened without notice to the user.

One moment I was browsing the internet (just barely) secured by these add-ons, and the next moment, all of them disappeared (without warning) and I only noticed when I saw my password manager was missing.

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1. dontbenebby ◴[04 May 19 01:59 UTC] No.19823819[source]▶
Mine still work. I tried to set my clock to two days ago to avoid it and promptly got errors on every HTTPS site I visited. Damned if you do, damned if you don't :/