Yet another Mozilla / Firefox Cluster Fsck, screwed over the certificats and invalided about 90 percent of the plugins

This is getting really old.  First Mozilla invalidated a huge number of utilities, which most developers have no way of fitting to the new and improved API, or require a massive rewrite, without anything but arrogant disregard for the needs of users or developers.

Now they've screwed the pooch with a FSCK letting a certificate which signs a lot of new and old plugins be installed to expire.

In an unmodified, unupdated Firefox 54, 75% of my plugins are now disabled.  Thanks butholes

Here's the adblock plus blog, and also a copy of a fix, which I'm saving here in case it at leasts adblock plus install.  Needed to remove all the skred from pages.

I won't upgrade a couple of systems to the latest and track it as I need a couple of the plugins from time to time, and I use them on the same sites as always.  Some exposure of risk, but not a lot.


https://adblockplus.org/blog/firefox-bug-disabled-all-add-ons-including-adblock-plus#comment


Comment 37 in the blog (referred to in 111 below)

John  2019-05-05 00:47  #

The only way to fix it (as suggested elsewhere) is to manually install the fix:
right click this link and save it as *.xpi and than run it with FF
https://storage.googleapis.com/moz-fx-normandy-prod-addons/extensions/hotfix-update-xpi-intermediate%40mozilla.com-1.0.2-signed.xpi
and the same with Adblock Plus (if someone has uninstalled this like me)
right click this link and save it as *.xpi and than run it with FF
https://eyeo.to/adblockplus/firefox_install/firefox

Reply from Laura Dornheim:

Hi John,

thanks for sharing this!
This indeed is a working solution but I recommend only users that understand what they are doing to apply this. ;-)
Best,
Laura

Comment 111 in above blog

NeverchangewhatisOK

2019-05-06 10:26#

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO UPDATE FIREFOX FOR THE ADD-ONS TO WORK AGAIN.
THE TIP IN POST 37, REPEATED IN POST 90, WORKS!
You do not even need to install the fix manually from the downloaded xpi file.
Simply put the address of the fix below in the Firefox address bar.
https://storage.googleapis.com/moz-fx-normandy-prod-addons/extensions/hotfix-update-xpi-intermediate%40mozilla.com-1.0.2-signed.xpi
After installing the fix, go to the menu, tools, add-ons and from either the extensions tab or unsupported tab update Adblockplus.
For those who have an up to date Adblockplus and may therefore not be able to update it, downloading it again from https://adblockplus.org should work as well.

My comment about the problem, and reply from Laura

jim st 2019-05-05 07:40 #

I was running fine on version 54 of Firefox, and they broke it with whatever they did. If I upgrade, I lose a lot of plugins I use, so maintain a system with 54 on it specifically for that purpose.

How the hell did they break an old revision? Can I get a copy of adblock plus, or will you run back thru all the down revs you might have (seem to remember doing that, maybe not with ABP though) so I can get it running?

I’m about done with firefox, between the destruction of the addon community with their ill guided upgrade and no back compatability to the developers, and now this, I think of the story about the mule and the two by four.

“That’s Two”

thanks for this wherever it appears.

Reply from Laura Dornheim:

Hi Jim,

I feel your frustration!
This is super annoying.

You can actually find older versions of Adblock Plus in the Mozilla add-on store.

Hope this helps!

link in above (italics)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/versions/

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125  Fireflux  2019-05-07 01:31  #

Thank you for posting that Reddit link, RR! Updating the certificate with the one taken from Mozilla’s own XPI fix worked for me, or at least until it expires again in 2025, lol!

Here is the link once again, just in case someone needs it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bkspmk/addons_fix_for_5602_older/

My Firefox version is 51.0.1 in case anyone is wondering. Thanks so much once again! So glad to have Adblock working again!



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