Firefox disabled all add-ons WOW

[Flx 76]

Firefox: One or more installed add-ons cannot be verified and have been disabled. (as of 1 hour ago)
Check your own Firefox browser.
More on this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19823465
Regards,
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[JasonBourne 8]

Disabling xpinstall.signatures.required in about:config works.

[zhang888 1065]

5 hours ago, JasonBourne said:

Disabling xpinstall.signatures.required in about:config works. 

That is a very bad advice and an unnecessary security threat.
The signatures are there for a reason, and that is to ensure the browser won't install malicious
junk addons from various spyware sites, or addons that impersonate others with fake search
engine results and other manipulations, that were quite common in the past.

The solution is to install Firefox 66.0.4, or if you are on other unofficial branches install the hotfix from:
https://storage.googleapis.com/moz-fx-normandy-prod-addons/extensions/hotfix-update-xpi-intermediate%40mozilla.com-1.0.2-signed.xpi

[JasonBourne 8]

37 minutes ago, zhang888 said:

That is a very bad advice and an unnecessary security threat.

Thanks. I agree. I was traveling when Firefox disabled all add-ons [without notification] as I badly needed my add-ons.
Since default Linux Mint’s update channel is only on 66.0.3 I used the about:config 'hack' as a temporary workaround.