Mozilla seems to have disabled add-ons, attempts to download them don't work

[dixiegrrrrl]

Et tu, anyone ?

All of my extensions are marked as "___ could not be verified for use in Firefox and has been disabled".
Trying to remove them and reinstall them gives "Download failed. Please check your connection."
EVERY single add-on on the Mozilla page does this.

2 hours later, I found https://github.com/mozilla/addons/issues/978, which is
a current discussion of the problem that people have discovered in the last 3-4 hours.

I can attest this just recently happened around 10 pm Central, on my 2 computers running Firefox.

I have Opera as a back up browser, so can change over to that.

[walkingman]

1. I'm using Firefox Quantum 66....and things seem OK for me. Not sure what is going on

I saw similar comments on another forum so maybe it is a geographical issue? I'm in Central Texas.

[Eugene]

3. Wait until your clock hits midnight (in about 7 minutes).

Then the bug will bite.

[Eugene]

2. It's a known problem.

Mozilla acknowledges the problem. A site certificate expired as of 00:00 May 4, 2019.

All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973

The addon store needs to fix their site.

[walkingman]

4. Wow - not a good thing for Mozilla. I left Firefox for Chrome for a while when they went to

extensions and I lost some of my favorite addons but came back when I figured out that I could do some of the same things with CSS file. Now more problems. Not good.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Thanks for the confirmation.

I'll check back to the add on page in a couple days then. When they get it fixed, will our extensions be working, or do we have to download them again?

[greyl]

5. Slightly disconcerting, but only updates disabled here.

On my Android tablet, Firefox plugins were disabled, but here on a Windows 7 PC, they're not disabled, but show "There was an error downloading..." updates for Wappalyzer, Adblock Plus, Clippings, and NoScript.

[blogslut]

7. This account is keeping track of the problem and (hopefully) eventual fix

https://twitter.com/mozamo

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. Thank you!

[msongs]

8. just now got that message/change on firefox. not sure what they disabled tho, adblock plus?

or what

[msongs]

9. yep adblock is disabled, dirt sucking ads everywhere guess its off to chrome nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Ghostery ad blocker is back on my puter!!

It just showed up in the usual place on the adddress bar.

Ad blocker Ultimate is still ded, tho.

Looks like are working on the problem.

[Eugene]

12. Update: Mozilla is pushing out a pair of hotfixes.

Update Regarding Add-ons in Firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox/comment-page-5/

To provide this fix on short notice, we are using the Studies system. This system is enabled by default, and no action is needed unless Studies have been disabled. Firefox users can check if they have Studies enabled by going to:

It may take up to six hours for the Study to be applied to Firefox. To check if the fix has been applied, you can enter “about:studies” in the location bar. If the fix is in the active, you’ll see “hotfix-update-xpi-signing-intermediate-bug-1548973” in either the Active studies or Completed studies as follows:

The other hotfix is hotfix-reset-xpi-verification-timestamp-1548973.

In my case, one PC has the fixes and I'm still waiting on other computers.

[Make7]

13. That fixed it on my Windows 7 machine. ( n/t )

[walkingman]

14. Thanks! It hit me today and I turned on the active studies feature and a few minutes later

everything was back! Gracias!

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. 2 of 3 laptops in the house are back up

but a 3rd, not yet. We haven't done anything to fix them, Mozilla did.

thanks for the blog link, gonna keep that and their twitter feed for future reference.

[Go Vols]

16. just updated to 66.0.3

all back

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. I'm wondering how many people did the update.

we haven't yet...but the extensions are now working for us.

[dalton99a]

18. Version 66.0.4 is out, all extensions should be back to normal

[ManiacJoe]

19. My android phone took an extra day due

to the staggered rollout that Google Play does.
All is good now.