Firefox marks all extensions as unsafe due to intermediate cert expiry

[brotherhood of LAN]

[bugzilla.mozilla.org...]

The TL;DR, if you're using firefox then all your extensions will be marked as unsafe and unusable because the browser treats the expired cert as a show stopper.

As far as I can tell, this is temporary as they've already applied a new certificate.

[aristotle]

Well I don't allow any of my passwords to be saved by Firefox or anything else. I keep all of them in my head.

[Solution1]

In a blogpost about this issue [blog.mozilla.org...] , Mozilla says that they will delete all Studies data that they collected during the time period of this issue, 4th - 11th May. Apparently they are aware that many were not happy with having to turn Firefox Studies on to get the hotfixes.

[IanCP]

Yes well Mr.Firefox still hasn't repaired this at present - thus severely limiting Firefox usefulness to me.

It was my preferred browser, except for search - I hate tiny little rectangles. IE 11 has a large Google Toolbar search box for me, and better yet? Highlight any text on a page and it appears in the Google search automatically.

I use Chrome and Opera for other things.

Firefox may well go the way of the Dodo.

[IanCP]

This seems to have restored all for me in Firefox 56.02

Disabled Add-on Fix for Firefox 47 - 56
by Mozilla

[addons.mozilla.org ]

How long will it last?

[tangor]

@IanCP ... just curious ... any reason to be at 56.02 instead of 66.0.5?

I have some legacy programs for development (such as PS5 since I have no need of CSx), but as far as browsers are concerned, seems like we'd want the latest ...

... unless of course the target audience is not there yet. :)

[IanCP]

Because every time I update something I seem to lose a much needed feature. Until recently that was the most stable version for me, worked a treat.

[aristotle]

Saw a Firefox notification that a new update ( to Version 67.0) is avaiable, and did it. The download seemed larger than usual (15 MB).
It says:

Now you have the power to block video ads that autoplay when you open articles and links. Plus, Firefox has upped your protection against ad trackers.

[tangor]

To get all of 67's new updates, you will have to enter options/privacy and seek out the new functions. Not enabled by default. At least not when I got it.