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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: 0.209s | source
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fnrslvr ◴[04 May 19 05:40 UTC] No.19824683[source]▶
Mozilla doesn't seem to have communicated the issue well. I could imagine a lot of unsavvy users have tried some wild things in an attempt to fix the problem, and maybe made a mess in the process. Doesn't Mozilla have a mechanism for blasting out a message to all Firefox browsers? Also I have a Firefox account, why haven't I been inboxed about this?

Otherwise I'm not bothered. I won't be switching as long as this gets resolved within the next few days.

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1. witten ◴[04 May 19 05:55 UTC] No.19824714[source]▶
Even if there's no way to blast all Firefox users, there are blue links to standard Mozilla-hosted "help" web pages within the Firefox add-ons config, links that a non-insignificant number of confused users will probably click. Those web pages could easily be updated with info about the cert expiry snafu.