Widespread Firefox issues

Sat May 4 12:23:28 UTC 2019

On Sat, May 4, 2019, at 08:21, Randy Bush wrote:
> so is there a recipe for re-enabling the add-ons?  otherwise, one is
> running pretty nekkid.

>From https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/certificate-issue-causing-add-ons-to-be-disabled-or-fail-to-install/39047:

12:50 p.m. UTC / 03:50 a.m. PDT: We rolled-out a fix for release, beta and nightly users on Desktop. The fix will be automatically applied in the background within the next few hours, you don’t need to take active steps.

In order to be able to provide this fix on short notice, we are using the Studies system. You can check if you have studies enabled by going to Firefox Preferences -> Privacy & Security -> Allow Firefox to install and run studies.

You can disable studies again after your add-ons have been re-enabled.

We are working on a general fix that doesn’t need to rely on this and will keep you updated.

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Harald Koch
chk at pobox.com