{"id":11122,"date":"2019-05-04T10:34:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T17:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=11122"},"modified":"2020-08-25T09:48:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T16:48:35","slug":"firefox-extensions-are-temporarily-broken-for-most-users-what-happened-and-how-to-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/firefox-extensions-are-temporarily-broken-for-most-users-what-happened-and-how-to-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Extensions are Temporarily Broken for Most Users &#8211; What Happened and How to Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What Happened?<\/h2>\n<p>Today, many users were met with an error saying that <em>their extensions were no longer valid and have been disabled by Firefox<\/em>. This is because in mid-2018, Mozilla changed the Firefox extension system so that the extensions have to be signed by Mozilla in order to function in Firefox. Mozilla has a certificate authority that they use to sign each extension, which Firefox checks each time that it loads. If an extension is not verified, it will be disabled and not function.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mozilla allowed the root certificate that signs all of the extensions to expire, causing ALL extensions to be disabled.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This means that critical features like ad-blocking are disabled for everyone at this time, and everyone is dealing with the garbage version of the Internet if they are using Firefox.<\/p>\n<h2>Mozilla Has a Fix Deployed, But You Need to Change Settings<\/h2>\n<p>Mozilla has deployed a fix to this problem for regular Firefox, beta, and nightly users through the \u201cstudies\u201d system. To enable studies and get the fix, you need to click on the menu button in the upper-right corner of the browser, go to \u201coptions\u201d and select the \u201cprivacy and security\u201d tab on the left pane. There, you will see an option to enable studies.<\/p>\n<p>Check that box and close the settings window.<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla says that it can take up to 6 hours for the study to be downloaded and enabled in your browser. It updated immediately for me when i enabled the setting, and then closed and reopened Firefox. I have confirmed that this works with multiple other users on the current version (66.03).<\/p>\n<p>To check if the fixes have been downloaded, type about:studies into the url bar, and look for these fixes:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11124\" src=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/about-studies-1024x503.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/about-studies-1024x503.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/about-studies-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/about-studies-768x377.png 768w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/about-studies-1200x589.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/about-studies-846x416.png 846w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/about-studies.png 1988w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once it is deployed, you should be able to restart your browser and have all of your previous add-ons re-enabled.<\/p>\n<h2>Disable Studies After Fixes Install<\/h2>\n<p>Firefox studies has privacy and security issues generally, and you should go to the menu and disable the setting once again after the fix is deployed. 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Mozilla has a certificate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/firefox-extensions-are-temporarily-broken-for-most-users-what-happened-and-how-to-fix\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Firefox Extensions are Temporarily Broken for Most Users &#8211; What Happened and How to Fix&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":11126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,845],"tags":[1462,842,1461,1463],"class_list":["post-11122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-guides","tag-extensions","tag-firefox","tag-fix","tag-workaround"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Firefox Extensions are Temporarily Broken for Most Users - What Happened and How to Fix<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What Happened? 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