All of my themes and add-ons suddenly became non-supported (in a matter of milliseconds), how do I fix this?
I was just casually browsing the internet, looking at a well-known website, when suddenly, something happened to my theme (felt like it crashed, I do not know the exact vocabulary), then I got a message. I cannot remember what the message actually said, but there was a button which redirected me to my Add-ons Manager. I clicked on it, and I could not see any of my add-ons. Then, I clicked on the prompt that said "Missing something? Some extensions are no longer supported by Firefox. Show legacy extensions." So, I clicked on the "Show legacy extensions" button, and I saw all of my themes and most of my add-ons jumbled up in an "unsupported" category. Can anyone help?
Oh, and this was happening while I was surfing the internet, not after I updated Firefox.
Thanks, Deniz
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UPDATE: Firefox 66.0.4 and 60.6.2esr are now available with the new certificate needed to solve this problem. See: Update Firefox to the latest release.
Hi Tedd, there is a general problem with most add-ons at the moment. A critical certificate Firefox uses to verify their digital signatures has expired, and you need a new one to resume using the extensions.
Please see this article for more information: Add-ons disabled or fail to install on Firefox.
Also, Firefox 66.0.4 is expected later today with a fix if the interim hotfix hasn't come through.
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Here are the screenshots as a comment, because for some reason, they did not send with my question.
Same here, all but three of my add-ons are now disabled, including AdBlock Plus!
Modified by Dave-H
The Add-ons team is working on a fix for this. It looks like a certificate used to sign many popular extensions expired. The verification process checks that certificate, and anything that doesn't pass is blocked.
I don't know how soon re-signed versions of those extensions will become available, or whether another workaround will be discovered. We are all hoping to learn more soon.
See also:
- Bug 1548973 - (armagadd-on-2.0) All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert
(please do not comment in bug reports
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html)
Happened to me too. This includes my Norton add-ons. I will be reluctantly be forced to go to MS Edge to keep my Norton add-ons. Someone messed up big-time.
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UPDATE: Firefox 66.0.4 and 60.6.2esr are now available with the new certificate needed to solve this problem. See: Update Firefox to the latest release.
Hi Tedd, there is a general problem with most add-ons at the moment. A critical certificate Firefox uses to verify their digital signatures has expired, and you need a new one to resume using the extensions.
Please see this article for more information: Add-ons disabled or fail to install on Firefox.
Also, Firefox 66.0.4 is expected later today with a fix if the interim hotfix hasn't come through.
Modified by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
Thanks to everyone that replied. I'll be marking this as solved because the question has been answered, thanks to everyone!