On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 11:54:04AM +0300, Dumitru Moldovan wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 10:13:39PM +0200, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado > wrote: > > On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 07:01:55PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > After upgrading Firefox today to 66.0.3 in -current, all my add-ons > > > were inactivated. A quick search showed that this is a widespread > > > problem, apparently due to a bug in FF. I was able to fix it > > > temporarily by means of a suggestion on ghacks.net to change > > > > > > xpinstall.signatures.required > > > > > > in about.config to "false". > > > > > > Presumably it will be fixed soon upstream. > > > > Disabling signature checks is almost always a bad idea. > > > > Open this url with firefox and install the extension. > > > > https://storage.googleapis.com/moz-fx-normandy-prod-addons/extensions/hotfix-update-xpi-intermediate%40mozilla.com-1.0.2-signed.xpi > > > Installing random extensions from the big bad Internet is almost always > a bad idea. :-D
The extension is signed by Mozilla. Just in case someone doesn't know, the xpi extensions are just zip files. If you're worried about what you're installing, unzip the file and check the content. The changes are in the file "experiments/skeleton/api.js". > > This issue was fixed upstream in Firefox 66.0.4. Use Landry Breuil's > repo to keep Firefox updated in -stable or -release. More at > https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20170425173917. > > Final result from pkg_add should be: > > firefox-66.0.2->66.0.4: ok > -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
