BUG: Firefox Extensions Disabled Due To Cert Expiring

Submitted by Tom Thorp on Saturday, May 4, 2019 - 14:11
Modified on Monday, May 6, 2019 - 16:04
Firefox extensions
At midnight on 4th May 2019 UTC, the internet went into meltdown (figuratively speaking) when all Firefox users running the latest version of Firefox (v66) experienced their extensions go into disabled mode. The "Firefox" hashtag was soon trending on Twitter as well as on other social media platforms. 
 
The reason behind the disabled extensions was quickly isolated to an intermediate signed certificate that become expired. At time of writing, Firefox developers were busy finding a resolution to their browser which is currently affecting millions of users worldwide.
 
Some tweets from Firefox users that discovered this error :
 
Update: Here is the latest update from Andreas Wagner, Add-ons Technical Editor, regarding a resolution to the disabled extensions issue. 
 
"9:20 p.m. UTC / 2:20 p.m. PDT:
We released Firefox 66.0.4 for Desktop and Android, as well as Firefox 60.6.2 ESR that re-enables extensions. For more information, please read the update on https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox 810 . Thank you for being patient with us! Thanks to everyone working on it!"
 
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