Firefox: All extensions disabled

sammiev · 2019-05-05 13:31:10

As of 12 hrs a go, I have all settings back to what they were before all this started and working with no issues.
Using FF 66.0.3

ugjka · 2019-05-05 16:10:56

Batou wrote:

progandy wrote:
Yes it is a major fail.
That's putting it mildly. Tor users were also affected and many of those depend on NoScript and other tools to keep their identities safe. JS blocking stops all kinds of known and unknown attacks. Who knows how many of those were exposed after Mozilla killed extensions.
Mozilla's mismanagement of FF and their general decline is worrisome. Their marketshare is now under 10%. Chrome is something like 65%. And Mozilla is sabotaging itself. We're already in a monoculture worse than from IE days. It's sad really.

If only Mozilla had deep pockets and influence like Google. If you ever dabble in the windows world you know every freeware you try to install gonna attempt to install Chrome alongside and then there's the mobile world where every phone and tablet basically comes with Chrome preinstalled.

But I expect that change a bit when Chrome goes along with their plan to kill adblockers

archdub · 2019-05-05 18:20:32

There appears to be a new release but as of now it has not been officially announced by Mozilla.

https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox … es/66.0.4/

nbd · 2019-05-06 11:44:57

I downloaded firefox-esr from Mozilla site, unpacked it, and it "just works" without any installation (the bug with add-ons is fixed). Is this method of using FF succeptible to soname-bumps after some "pacman -Syu"?

seth · 2019-05-06 12:45:25

ugjka wrote:

If only Mozilla had deep pockets and influence like Google.

Neither explains their failure to deal w/ an outdating certificate. That's a perfectly avoidable mistake. For *anyone*.

ronmon · 2019-05-06 19:09:02

Installed this fix, which did the trick.
https://storage.googleapis.com/moz-fx-n … signed.xpi

Now that firefox-66.0.4-1-x86_64 showed up in pacman I installed that and everything is still working. I poked around in AddOns/Extensions with the intent to remove the temp fix but couldn't find it. It is in my ~/.mozilla/firefox/.../extensions directory but doesn't seem to be causing any trouble. I guess I'll just let it be unless someone can recommend otherwise.

Batou · 2019-05-06 21:48:05

Still some questions left:

- why am I opted-in to a Studies program in Firefox's default state? (With no explicit information about what it is)
- what does app.normandy.enabled switch do and why is its default value is True and doesn't change to false when I explicitly state I don't want to be in the Studies program?
- why can't we see any xpi's installed by studies program unless we explicitly go to about:studies?

ronmon · 2019-05-06 22:05:57

Ah, what the heck. I just manually deleted hotfix-update-xpi-intermediate@mozilla.com.xpi and there don't seem to be any repercussions. Extensions are working.

nomorewindows · 2019-05-12 00:05:41

ugjka wrote:

Batou wrote:
progandy wrote:
Yes it is a major fail.
That's putting it mildly. Tor users were also affected and many of those depend on NoScript and other tools to keep their identities safe. JS blocking stops all kinds of known and unknown attacks. Who knows how many of those were exposed after Mozilla killed extensions.
Mozilla's mismanagement of FF and their general decline is worrisome. Their marketshare is now under 10%. Chrome is something like 65%. And Mozilla is sabotaging itself. We're already in a monoculture worse than from IE days. It's sad really.
If only Mozilla had deep pockets and influence like Google. If you ever dabble in the windows world you know every freeware you try to install gonna attempt to install Chrome alongside and then there's the mobile world where every phone and tablet basically comes with Chrome preinstalled.
But I expect that change a bit when Chrome goes along with their plan to kill adblockers

Why does every browser on the planet default to using google as the search engine?

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