{"id":305206,"date":"2019-05-06T08:06:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T06:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=305206"},"modified":"2019-05-06T08:06:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T06:06:52","slug":"mozilla-releases-another-fix-for-broken-firefox-extensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/305206-mozilla-releases-another-fix-for-broken-firefox-extensions.html","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla releases another fix for broken Firefox extensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla has begun distributing its second set of Firefox updates in two days as it seeks to fix a bug that broke Firefox extensions for many users on Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/firefox-fix-restores-broken-browser-extensions-but-not-everyone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>CNET reports<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Extensions, which are called add-ons in Firefox, require digital signatures to improve browser security.<\/p>\n<p>However, the certificate used by Mozilla to do this expired on Friday &#8211; resulting in Firefox automatically disabling certain extensions that it considered unsafe.<\/p>\n<p>The company launched a fix on Saturday that used the Firefox &#8220;studies tool&#8221;, which is used for testing new features, but users who have disabled this feature did not receive the fix.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Mozilla released a more traditional fix on Sunday that directly repaired the issue with the certificate, which works on PCs, Android, and the ESR version of the browser.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No active steps need to be taken to make add-ons work again. In particular, please do not delete and\/or reinstall any add-ons as an attempt to fix the issue,&#8221; said Mozilla product manager for add-ons Kev Needham in a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2015\/02\/10\/extension-signing-safer-experience\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>blog post<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/305194-apple-greatly-exaggerating-iphone-battery-life-report.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Apple greatly exaggerating iPhone battery life \u2013 Report<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla has begun distributing its second set of Firefox updates in two days as it seeks to fix a bug that broke Firefox extensions for many users on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":282307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[981,15149,4930],"class_list":["post-305206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-firefox","tag-firefox-add-ons","tag-mozilla-firefox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305212,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305206\/revisions\/305212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}