On 05/05/2019 13:54, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 05/05/2019 07.18, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 05/04/2019 07:28 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Because it is not an update. It is a certificate in the chain of trust for addons that expired, a fact you can avoid by turning your clock back for days. Otherwise, at the exact minute the certificate expired, all the addons were automatically disabled. At least on restart of firefox, maybe even if you don't.
My firefox is running fine, and I have a new addon I did not add myself:
hotfix-update-xpi-intermediate 1.0.2
This is a hotfix that updates an intermediate certificate used for signing add-ons. It is one of the mechanisms used to fix bug 1548973.
Apparently that is why an UPDATE will be needed for Firefox ESR. I don't believe ESR will receive the certificate fix automatically. That is why Mozilla included the language dnh quoted.
I don't know where the certificate is physically.
In my case, I have "studies enabled". I had forgotten about it. In preferences, "firefox data collection and use", I had enabled "Allow Firefox to install and run studies". It is this which allowed them to install on my FF, without me restarting FF or doing anything, this:
hotfix-update-xpi-intermediate 1.0.2
This is a hotfix that updates an intermediate certificate used for signing add-ons. It is one of the mechanisms used to fix bug 1548973.
which solves the issue for now.
Just to advise others who may be waiting and wondering what's happening, on my FF 60.6.1esr installation on Leap 42.3, upon seeing the message about the problem under my Add-Ons and then following the link to the temporary fix, having re-enabled the browser to run Studies (and in turn the parent option 'Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla', necessary in order to enable the former) nothing actually happened until I restarted the browser. I then found the hotfix in my add-ons, but the add-ons were still listed as unsupported and disabled. The information in the hotfix suggested having to wait up to 6 hours, so I gave it at least half of that time, but nothing appeared to happen automatically, so I restarted a second time, and straight away, the add-ons were back and things back to normal. So you may need to do two restarts. gumb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org