{"id":20488,"date":"2019-05-05T10:02:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T08:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=20488"},"modified":"2019-05-06T10:18:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T08:18:05","slug":"firefox-and-addon-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=20488","title":{"rendered":"Firefox and Addon problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FireFoxLogoNew.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-Post-Thumb wp-image-8125\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FireFoxLogoNew-64x64.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FireFoxLogoNew-64x64.png 64w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FireFoxLogoNew-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FireFoxLogoNew-480x480.png 480w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FireFoxLogoNew-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FireFoxLogoNew-1440x1440.png 1440w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FireFoxLogoNew-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FireFoxLogoNew-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FireFoxLogoNew.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 64px) 100vw, 64px\" \/><\/a>It appears as if Firefox has some problems with Addon installation<br \/>\nand activation. If your Firefox is Version 66.0.3 and older, you&#8217;ll find<br \/>\nmost if not all of your addons being deactivated. Reason for this is<br \/>\nan expired SSL-certificate that is used by Firefox and mozilla.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->There are several workarounds to get the addons back to working state but it needs a bit of knowledge to do so. One is to implement some piece of script so that Firefox activates the plugins without SSL check. But this can become a security issue and a backdoor for non-authenticated plugins that may contain also malware.<\/p>\n<p>The second workaround is to use Firefox ESR 60.0.2.<\/p>\n<h3>Update May 6th, 2019 &#8211; 09:00:<\/h3>\n<p>The problems have been completely solved with Firefox 66.0.4 hotfix. Addons will now install and load fine again.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t updated your browser, do so now to receive full addon functionality again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears as if Firefox has some problems with Addon installation and activation. If your Firefox is Version 66.0.3 and older, you&#8217;ll find most if not all of your addons being deactivated. Reason for this is an expired SSL-certificate that is used by Firefox and mozilla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,3,2949],"tags":[1456,2842,3823,454,3265,3824],"class_list":["post-20488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-2","category-news","category-technology","tag-authentication","tag-certificate","tag-expiry","tag-firefox","tag-ssl","tag-update-hotfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}