Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News Editorials & Other Articles General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

Computer Help and Support

Eugene

(63,199 posts)

12. Update: Mozilla is pushing out a pair of hotfixes.

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)

Sat May 4, 2019, 04:17 PM

May 2019

Update Regarding Add-ons in Firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox/comment-page-5/

To provide this fix on short notice, we are using the Studies system. This system is enabled by default, and no action is needed unless Studies have been disabled. Firefox users can check if they have Studies enabled by going to:

It may take up to six hours for the Study to be applied to Firefox. To check if the fix has been applied, you can enter “about:studies” in the location bar. If the fix is in the active, you’ll see “hotfix-update-xpi-signing-intermediate-bug-1548973” in either the Active studies or Completed studies as follows:

The other hotfix is hotfix-reset-xpi-verification-timestamp-1548973.

In my case, one PC has the fixes and I'm still waiting on other computers.

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

Recommendations

0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

19 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Mozilla seems to have disabled add-ons, attempts to download them don't work [View all] dixiegrrrrl May 2019 OP

I'm using Firefox Quantum 66....and things seem OK for me. Not sure what is going on walkingman May 2019 #1

Wait until your clock hits midnight (in about 7 minutes). Eugene May 2019 #3

It's a known problem. Eugene May 2019 #2

Wow - not a good thing for Mozilla. I left Firefox for Chrome for a while when they went to walkingman May 2019 #4

Thanks for the confirmation. dixiegrrrrl May 2019 #6

Slightly disconcerting, but only updates disabled here. greyl May 2019 #5

This account is keeping track of the problem and (hopefully) eventual fix blogslut May 2019 #7

Thank you! dixiegrrrrl May 2019 #10

just now got that message/change on firefox. not sure what they disabled tho, adblock plus? msongs May 2019 #8

yep adblock is disabled, dirt sucking ads everywhere guess its off to chrome nt msongs May 2019 #9

Ghostery ad blocker is back on my puter!! dixiegrrrrl May 2019 #11

Update: Mozilla is pushing out a pair of hotfixes. Eugene May 2019 #12

That fixed it on my Windows 7 machine. ( n/t ) Make7 May 2019 #13

Thanks! It hit me today and I turned on the active studies feature and a few minutes later walkingman May 2019 #14

2 of 3 laptops in the house are back up dixiegrrrrl May 2019 #15

just updated to 66.0.3 Go Vols May 2019 #16

I'm wondering how many people did the update. dixiegrrrrl May 2019 #17

Version 66.0.4 is out, all extensions should be back to normal dalton99a May 2019 #18

My android phone took an extra day due ManiacJoe May 2019 #19