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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: 0s | source
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rmbryan ◴[04 May 19 10:27 UTC] No.19825581[source]▶
Update: We have rolled out a partial fix for this issue. We generated a new intermediate certificate with the same name/key but an updated validity window and pushed it out to users via Normandy (this should be most users). Users who have Normandy on should see their add-ons start working over the next few hours. We are continuing to work on packaging up the new certificate for users who have Normandy disabled.
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inferiorhuman ◴[04 May 19 10:49 UTC] No.19825665[source]▶
pushed it out to users via Normandy (this should be most users)

Is the existence of a back door method of updating Firefox preferences something that will be disclosed to users? What about a UI knob to disable it?

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nanis ◴[04 May 19 11:03 UTC] No.19825716[source]▶
This is the first I hear about Normandy[1]. Firefox has been my main browser for a long time, only because I could use uBlock origin. Now, all of a sudden that is disabled, and with the recent version they got rid of my ability to always prevent autoplaying of videos.

Apparently, there is no one associated with browsers can be trusted in the least.

[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Normandy/PreferenceRollout

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daleharvey ◴[04 May 19 11:05 UTC] No.19825720[source]▶
In the recent version we added the ability to always prevent autoplaying of videos, in the next version we will be adding further UI to let the user disable all (not just muted) videos from autoplaying - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1543812
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inferiorhuman ◴[04 May 19 11:13 UTC] No.19825756[source]▶
That does nothing to mitigate the wholesale disabling of already trusted plugins like uBlock.
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Yoric ◴[04 May 19 11:24 UTC] No.19825798[source]▶
Well, if you follow the OP, you'll realize that it's a bug and people are working to fix it :)
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1. shstalwart ◴[04 May 19 16:43 UTC] No.19827554{3}[source]▶
The bug is that plugins can't be manually enable. Nobody is working to fix that.