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All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert

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1318 points xvector | 2 comments | 04 May 19 01:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.534s | source
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weavejester ◴[04 May 19 02:21 UTC] No.19823928[source]▶
There's a workaround that involves going to about:config and setting xpinstall.signatures.required to false.

However, if you're running the Stable or Beta version, it will only work under Linux. On Windows and MacOS you'll need to download Nightly or the Developer Edition.

To fix this on MacOS I did the following:

1. Downloaded and installed Firefox Nightly

2. Ran /Applications/Firefox\ Nightly.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin --profilemanager

3. Changed the profile to "default" so my normal Firefox profile would be used

4. Started up Firefox Nightly, opened about:config, then set xpinstall.signatures.required to false

Not sure if it's a good idea to use my default profile in Nightly. It might be a wiser idea to copy it instead.

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nonbirithm ◴[04 May 19 03:33 UTC] No.19824268[source]▶
Doesn't work for me. Using Arch Linux. I was already on Nightly when this happened.
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1. c0nducktr ◴[04 May 19 05:36 UTC] No.19824664[source]▶
What timezone are you in? I'm in UTC-4 (Detroit), and haven't seen any problems so far. (Also running Nightly on Arch Linux - I haven't made any previous changes to the addon signing either)
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2. nonbirithm ◴[04 May 19 07:30 UTC] No.19825004[source]▶
To clarify, by 'not working' I meant none of the addons with signing issues are re-enabled after changing xpinstall.signatures.required. I might have wrongly assumed this would happen. However, I tried installing a new addon I had never installed before and that works, but reinstalling one that I had previously installed still doesn't, even after uninstalling it (uBlock Origin).

My timezone is America/Los_Angeles.

EDIT: Sorry, I'm dumb. I actually have two versions of FF installed and I chose the one that wasn't Nightly.