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All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert

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1318 points xvector | 9 comments | 04 May 19 01:31 UTC | HN request time: 1.77s | source | bottom
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s9w ◴[04 May 19 07:50 UTC] No.19825060[source]▶
What a spectacular failure... it's hours later, and still not working. The only thing firefox has going for itself stopped working. Already one family member and one friend switched to chrome.
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1. 59nadir ◴[04 May 19 08:25 UTC] No.19825190[source]▶
Just switch for a day. You're making this out to be a much bigger issue than it has the capacity to be.
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2. gspetr ◴[04 May 19 08:30 UTC] No.19825208[source]▶
NoScript and uBlock Origin have stopped working. This opens up a LOT of attack surface for malicious hackers.

If this isn't a critical security issue, what is?

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3. oagb ◴[04 May 19 08:35 UTC] No.19825224[source]▶
NoScript stopped working for Tor Browser users. I'd rather see the browser crash on startup than have that happen to me.
4. envolt ◴[04 May 19 08:37 UTC] No.19825229[source]▶
The Container extension is no longer working. I'm logged out of mostly everything. There are few sites I don't want to open without container.
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5. papaf ◴[04 May 19 08:39 UTC] No.19825236[source]▶
I switched to Brave today and I must say that I am impressed:

- Adblocker and Tracker protection without installing extensions.

- Nice background pictures.

- Caching Cdnjs requests -- for some reason Firefox was always hitting the CDN.

To be honest, despite the good work Mozilla does, I don't want to switch back.

6. inawarminister ◴[04 May 19 08:46 UTC] No.19825262{3}[source]▶
Exactly my use case. Already installed chromium-ungoogled and am using a judicious amount of profiles to emulate this. Still not as nice as what the Container extension do, unfortunately.
7. s9w ◴[04 May 19 09:04 UTC] No.19825321[source]▶
it's not about me. I can fix this for me. But most people can't. And for them, basically their computer stopped working right.
8. Causality1 ◴[04 May 19 09:14 UTC] No.19825347[source]▶
Many of us tech savvy Firefox users have told family and friends to use it as well. Mozilla's made us look like damn fools.
9. envolt ◴[04 May 19 17:08 UTC] No.19827744{3}[source]▶
Update - Container data is lost post addons recovery (I installed Nightly build). This is ridiculous.

My Firefox usage will be so unproductive for few days. I had around 6-8 containers for different purpose, and somehow I'm habitual to using shortcut to launch a container and open whatever I'm supposed to (e.g I've access to 3 different AWS account, and I tend to press shortcut key to launch the relevant container tab)