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All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert

(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
1318 points xvector | 1 comments | 04 May 19 01:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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Wowfunhappy ◴[04 May 19 02:12 UTC] No.19823890[source]▶
This is why users need to be in control of their own computers. Why can't I tell my copy of Firefox to ignore the certificate? Why can't I sign my own extensions?

Mistakes happen, it's okay. But users should be empowered to work around them.

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revvx ◴[04 May 19 02:20 UTC] No.19823921[source]▶
It is possible, according to another post by bitbang [1]:

> Temporary work around till the cert gets fixed: set "xpinstall.signatures.required" to false

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19823879

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1. parrellel ◴[04 May 19 03:06 UTC] No.19824133[source]▶
Gratzi!