On Saturday, many of the Add not work in Firefox-ons. You are suddenly disabled. The reason is that a digital certificate has expired, which helps in the Safety evaluation of the add-on programs. the
Many users of Firefox wonder on Saturday morning. Suddenly, almost all Add-ons disabled in the Browser, it worked only to a limited extent.
The additional programs to support users when Browsing, they can be loaded as desired in the Browser. Popular Add-ons including password Manager, VPN services for safe Browsing, or programs, the Browser and help Tabs to organize. Anyone who wanted to download new Add-ons, got on Saturday, only an error message.
the reason was that on Saturday, as a certificate had expired. This digital data set to ensure that the Browser detects the programs as safe. He helped to vouch for their safety. Because third-party can use add-on programs for malicious purposes, for example to spy on the users. After the expiry of the certificate, Firefox trusts now, however, virtually no Add-on, which it is not, the night to Friday as harmless were classified.
it had not been the technical responsible of the Mozilla Foundation, which runs the Browser in a timely manner to the renewal of the certificate. Mozilla apologized and promised to fix the problem quickly.
The Team began on Saturday at noon Central European time, to remedy the situation. Users would have to be described do anything, except a certain settings in your Browser, as here (English).
Mozilla had happened three years ago, something like that. Some users already have a derisive name for the new mass-failure of Add-ons: “Armagadd-on 2.0”.
How you can fix the error by a roundabout way, explains how to Mozilla here.
