PSA: FireFox updates required by March 14 or add-ons fail
This looks like it could be a problem: <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/root-certificate-expiration> A root certificate used to sign add-ons expired on March 14. If your FireFox is older than 128 (or older than ESR 115.13), add-ons will probably break. My FireFoxes are currently at 136. And I don't think that I use add-ons. So I don't expect to see this.
I am also at FF 136.0.1 (64-bit), andI do have addons On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 at 12:51, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
This looks like it could be a problem: <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/root-certificate-expiration>
A root certificate used to sign add-ons expired on March 14. If your FireFox is older than 128 (or older than ESR 115.13), add-ons will probably break.
My FireFoxes are currently at 136. And I don't think that I use add-ons. So I don't expect to see this. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
Wonder if they are doing this to insure users agree to their new terms of service? On Tue, 18 Mar 2025, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
This looks like it could be a problem: <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/root-certificate-expiration>
A root certificate used to sign add-ons expired on March 14. If your FireFox is older than 128 (or older than ESR 115.13), add-ons will probably break.
My FireFoxes are currently at 136. And I don't think that I use add-ons. So I don't expect to see this. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 at 23:17, Karen Lewellen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Wonder if they are doing this to insure users agree to their new terms of service?
They wouldn't be able to do this unless they knew they would have new terms of service back when they set the expiry date for the certificate. It's generally better to keep certificate expiry dates relatively short for security reasons. -- Scott
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