![]() Once the certificate expired, Firefox browsers couldn't verify the authenticity of locally-installed extensions, and immediately disabled all add-ons in users' browsers.Īdditionally, users couldn't re-enable extensions, nor could they install new ones from scratch for the same reason -the signing certificate having expired- leaving most of Mozilla's 100+ million users without a simple way to re-enable extensions. Mozilla was using this certificate to verify that extensions installed in the user's browsers are the same extensions that are hosted on the official Mozilla Add-ons portal. On the night between Friday and Saturday, at May 4, 12:00 am UTC, the digital certificate that Mozilla was using to sign Firefox add-ons (also called extensions) expired. If you're not a Firefox user and you're wondering what is this all about, the update comes to address Mozilla's biggest epic fail in the organization's history.
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