If you logged into Mozilla Firefox today, and everything there is littered with ads, the VPN doesn’t work and all the extensions have disappeared.
What happened
The browser crash is due to prematureexpiration of the certificate for generating digital signatures. In theory, the certificate should have been renewed a week ago, but this did not happen. Most likely, this is due to the transition of the desktop version of Mozilla Firefox to the UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) time scale.
As a result, at exactly 0 o'clock UTC in the browserextensions have stopped working - the system mistakenly recognizes all of them as outdated. Users see a message stating that the extension "cannot be verified for use in Firefox and has been disabled."
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What to do
You won't be able to reinstall the extension (we tried it, we know). Therefore, you will have to wait until the developers fix this problem. Fortunately, they are already working on this.
“We regret that we are currently experiencingAn issue where existing and new extensions do not run or install in Firefox. We know what the problem is and are working hard to restore this functionality to Firefox as soon as possible. We will continue to provide updates via our Twitter feeds. Please bear with us while we fix the issue,” a Mozilla spokesperson said.
But if you can't wait, downloadnecessary settings manually. However, this can only be done in the Firefox Developer or Nightly version. To do this, go to the about:config section and set the xpinstall.signatures.required parameter to False. In other versions, you will have to manually download .xpi files for each extension, and do this every time you open the browser.
Update.The Firefox team reports that the problemeliminated, the error was corrected. Users do not need to do anything for this – the update happened in the background. Extensions are reinstalled automatically.