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msongs

(67,421 posts) Sat May 4, 2019, 03:35 AM May 2019

reporting live from Chrome now that Firefox has disabled all add ons

spent three minutes on youtube and saw about a gazillion adds so firefox had to go.
one notices on the net that they are aware of the problem. maybe it will be fixed by get up time tomorrow morning, only 930 pm in hawaii now

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reporting live from Chrome now that Firefox has disabled all add ons (Original Post) msongs May 2019 OP

Thanks 2naSalit May 2019 #1

AdBlock is still working on my Firefox... So are several others and no error messages...? hlthe2b May 2019 #2

Did your Firefox update last night? Maeve May 2019 #3

Yeah, I just googled this on a TECH site... It says Firefox is working on it--a bug. hlthe2b May 2019 #4

Yeah, after I posted that, I did more research Maeve May 2019 #6

I finally figured out Tracer May 2019 #5

Firefox was always a problem with me and Chrome too at times katmondoo May 2019 #7

I used Firefox forever until I installed Codeine May 2019 #9

Works fine for me RandiFan1290 May 2019 #8

Speculation: dalton99a May 2019 #10

I just looked at Task Manager. lpbk2713 May 2019 #11

Firefox says ... Yonnie3 May 2019 #12

Firefox fixed it. First receivers are those with OPTIONS-PRIVACY & SECURITY-Allow FF to run Studies TheBlackAdder May 2019 #13

11 hrs later still cannot download/install add ons - download failed, please check connections nt msongs May 2019 #14

2naSalit

(86,658 posts)

1. Thanks

Reply to msongs (Original post)

Sat May 4, 2019, 05:53 AM

May 2019

I had a notice last night and didn't figure it out until you posted this. Have to switch to a different browser.

hlthe2b

(102,304 posts)

2. AdBlock is still working on my Firefox... So are several others and no error messages...?

Reply to msongs (Original post)

Sat May 4, 2019, 06:52 AM

May 2019

Maeve

(42,283 posts)

3. Did your Firefox update last night?

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #2)

Sat May 4, 2019, 07:21 AM

May 2019

Apparently, mine did and no add-ons are working. Went to Google and found there are Twitter threads on this. Tried to download AdBlock and Firefox says it's corrupt, but I also use Chrome, so for now, Chrome it is!

hlthe2b

(102,304 posts)

4. Yeah, I just googled this on a TECH site... It says Firefox is working on it--a bug.

Reply to Maeve (Reply #3)

Sat May 4, 2019, 07:23 AM

May 2019

But, no, it doesn't appear that Firefox updated.

But, for the past several months, Firefox has been repeatedly locking up with certain websites--especially those with embedded video, so, much as I don't really like Chrome or Edge, I've been using them more. As clunky as Firefox is, at least the interphase is straight-forward.

Maeve

(42,283 posts)

6. Yeah, after I posted that, I did more research

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #4)

Sat May 4, 2019, 07:43 AM

May 2019

There seems to have been a certificate they let lapse.... I'm going out this morning, so maybe they can fix the damn thing for me before I come home.
I use Firefox for most sites, but Chrome for FB and Edge only to stream music (so I don't accidentally close the wrong tab )

Tracer

(2,769 posts)

5. I finally figured out

Reply to msongs (Original post)

Sat May 4, 2019, 07:40 AM

May 2019

that it was Firefox that was freezing my computer 4 or 5 times a day.

So I ditched it and went back to Safari. I'm not crazy about Safari, but at least it doesn't lock up my Mac.

katmondoo

(6,457 posts)

7. Firefox was always a problem with me and Chrome too at times

Reply to Tracer (Reply #5)

Sat May 4, 2019, 07:51 AM

May 2019

Firefox was always preventing me from printing what I needed from the web.

Codeine

(25,586 posts)

9. I used Firefox forever until I installed

Reply to Tracer (Reply #5)

Sat May 4, 2019, 08:42 AM

May 2019

a widget that displayed CPU usage in real time on a little graph in the bottom corner of my screen. That’s when I realized just how utterly resource-hungry Firefox is and switched to Chrome.

That happened probably a full decade ago, though. Maybe Firefox has improved.

RandiFan1290

(6,239 posts)

8. Works fine for me

Reply to msongs (Original post)

Sat May 4, 2019, 07:54 AM

May 2019

I don't see any of the annoying ads here or Youtube.

dalton99a

(81,527 posts)

10. Speculation:

Reply to msongs (Original post)

Sat May 4, 2019, 08:51 AM

May 2019

kwierso:fennec:
3 hours ago

Certificates are used to sign software so people can verify that the software they get is the software the developer actually shipped out (and no one messed with it and inserted malicious code).

Certificates come with expiration dates in order to help ensure people can't steal old, stale certificates from people and sign malicious software with what appears to be a valid certificate. Every <time period>, you'll need to renew or get new certificates, to confirm you're still who you say you are. Software will need to be signed with the updated certificates before the expiration happens, or things can go poorly.

Firefox checks addons.mozilla.org every day to see if extensions have had their signatures revoked. This can be done to remotely kill extensions if it's discovered that the extension has malicious code added or is causing serious performance issues.

So, the signing certificate used to sign extensions expired today. When Firefox does its daily check to see if any installed extensions have had their signatures revoked, it sees that Every Single Extension™ is being reported as revoked, and promptly shuts them all down.

(I'm not in the loop enough to know why the cert expired. I would have hoped someone would have been notified a month ago that the expiration was coming up and it got taken care of before everything went down. Maybe only one person gets those notices and they were on vacation? Some team changed email address, so the alert got sent to the abyss? Just accidentally not seeing an email in your inbox? I dunno.)