Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Firefox add-on cert breakage

[Ben Goldsworthy]

Alternatively, I found this tip helpful: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bkhzjy/temp_fix_for_the_armagaddon_20_for_regular/

You have to redo it every 24hrs though.

Ben

On 2019-05-05 17:26, Michael Dorrington wrote:

> Firefox add-ons are getting disabled because Mozilla didn't renew a
> certificate in the chain, more info at Phoronix:
>
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?px=Firefox-Add-Ons-Cert-Expired
>
> A temporary work around is to disable signature checks but I'd also
> combine that with temporarily disabling auto-update of plugins.  So that is:
>
> extensions.update.enabled false
> xpinstall.signatures.required false
>
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-on-signing-in-firefox
> https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/how-to-turn-off-add-on-updates/
>
> On going discussion on the issue:
> https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/certificate-issue-causing-add-ons-to-be-disabled-or-fail-to-install
>
> Revert the above settings to previous values when this is fixed.
>
> M.
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