Mozilla has pushed out Firefox 66.0.4, properly addressing a problem that prevented add-ons from working in the web browser.
On Friday, an expired security certificate caused frustration and confusion for Firefox users as extensions were disabled and rendered unusable. Having delivered a patch through its Studies system (which did not work for everyone), Mozilla has now issued a browser update which it says will fix the problem for more people, although it warns that “there are remaining issues that we are actively working to resolve”.
In an update to an earlier blog post, Mozilla product manager Kevin Needham writes: ” A Firefox release has been pushed — version 66.0.4 on Desktop and Android, and version 60.6.2 for ESR. This release repairs the certificate chain to re-enable web extensions, themes, search engines, and language packs that had been disabled (Bug 1549061). There are remaining issues that we are actively working to resolve, but we wanted to get this fix out before Monday to lessen the impact of disabled add-ons before the start of the week”.
In the release notes for Firefox 66.0.4, Mozilla says that with the build it has “repaired certificate chain to re-enable web extensions that had been disabled”. It also notes that “a small number of add-ons may be listed as unsupported or may not appear in about:addons. Their data is not lost; users should be able to re-install the add-ons and recover the data”.
Source: https://betanews.com/2019/05/06/firefox-update-add-ons-fix/
Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
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