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Repaired certificate chain to re-enable web extensions that had been disabled

Too little, too late - the damage has already been done

Jack

colin_b wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 12:04 pm https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/6 ... easenotes/

Repaired certificate chain to re-enable web extensions that had been disabled

Quite a lot of drama over something so trivial, eh? I didn't even notice anything, so I don't really know what the fuss was about. Less than a day and a half with no extensions? Ooh.

Hi all,

Good news for everyone.
Currently not available in the mx repos. The same status in debian stretch and buster. Unfortunately only available for sid at the moment. How long can it take to appear in the mx repo?

Please take a deep breath. It is normally in our repos with a couple of days

I wonder what they broke this time in 66.0.4 since the developers at Mozilla don't check their work.

Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 12:46 pm Please take a deep breath. It is normally in our repos with a couple of days

Thx for the info Jerry3904

Firefox-ESR is already available (update) and 'fixed'.

I checked yesterday and couldn't get to it yet.
I'll check again soon as I get off work.

jackdanielsesq wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 12:19 pm Too little, too late - the damage has already been done

Jack

I suspect you're right about this. I personally love FF and I'm really shocked that they missed something so key. I actually NEED some of my plugins for work so it wasn't an option for me to wait for their fix.

Fortunately, I was able to fix the issue in about 5 minutes by changing a couple of settings in about:config so it didn't affect me much. However, I bet they lost a lot of users during this and they didn't need that given that almost everyone uses Chrome or one of its derivatives. :(

I'm hoping they can recover from this without too much user base loss.

mozilla pushed the application tarballs to their servers for 66.04 but hasn't gotten the language pack pieces up for us to download yet. I can send 66.0.4 up but you'll have to stay with the old language packs until the new ones show up.

- mike

Thank you mmikeinsantarosa for your fast reaction.
Addons all active. Language Pack (66.0buildid20190409155332-de) synchronized with my FF 66.0.4 in macOS. FF 66.0.4 update works like a charm.

Thanks for getting the updated FF out quickly.

I've looked at 5 other browsers, whilst considering this breach, & have come to the conclusion that there really isn't much choice out there for alternate web browsers - just FF or Chromium - all the others are using old code, (with possibly more chance of getting hacked).

Did you look at Opera?

thanks for the fast reaction from me too

Jerry3904 wrote:Did you look at Opera?

opera is chromium based i think. Some of us don't want to use chromium and chromium based browsers (i mean never), so it is not a choice...

Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2019 6:21 am Did you look at Opera?

Yes, I did check out Opera - also Vivaldi, Waterfox, PaleMoon, & Chromium.

I now have both FF & Chromium installed, (removed the others).