Firefox Drama incoming

https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/
https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/05/04/0457201/a-glitch-is-breaking-all-firefox-extensions#comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19823701
They managed to screw up all addons with expired cert.

Yeah I threw in the towel last night and switched to Brave. IT's okay, the lack of a dropdown menu showing most-visited bookmarks is a terrible trial but I'm managing so far. They have really improved things sine last time I tried Brave in 2016.

I actually b0rk'd my main (on my back up lappy right now) trying to fix the firefox issue, I fucking delted system32 even though of course I knew it ws a troll from like 2006 4Chan but I got desperate and some asshole troll mentioned it as a solution and I had to take a shot. I'm probably abandoning firefox after this, might try ple moon.

>>3
Deleting system32? isn't windows file protection enabled on all versions past XP?
Besides that idea being really stupid, system files have nothing to do with firefox itself.
>>2
I prefer Waterfox, and i'm immune since i disable compatibility/signatures years ago (for e.g. loading addons from github).

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/03/a-glitch-is-breaking-all-firefox-extensions/
https://www.techradar.com/news/a-technical-glitch-has-broken-everyones-firefox-extensions
https://www.ghacks.net/2019/05/04/your-firefox-extensions-are-all-disabled-thats-a-bug/
https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/03/firefox-extension-add-on-cert/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/firefox-addons-being-disabled-due-to-an-expired-certificate/
Btw they promise a fix on wednesday(on twitter), post-meritocratic SJWs running mozilla expect people to use addon-less browser for 4-5 days. Remember how it went, when people complained about legacy addons being disabled - now its all addons...

Looks like the Internet shitstorm made them realize its a big fuckup and there are new FF versions and hotfixes streaming in.

Their budzilla tracker had to put the "Addon problem" at the top of the page, because of volume of users submitting the same thing - that is a small portion of users that know the bug tracker exists at all.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/home

Mozilla can fuck off and die. They are but a ghost of what they used to be.

Will waterfox also get fucked by this?

>>9
IIRC it uses code before mandatory cert checks were rolled into firefox, so its safe.

http://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/32906
The only thing thats an issue with Waterfox now its requires a userscript to load youtube(since it lacks modern features(js) it needs to set a cookie to force older youtube interface) or load
https://www.youtube.com/?disable_polymer=true Edited on 04/05/2019 18:10.

http://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/32906
The only thing thats an issue with Waterfox now its requires a userscript to load youtube(since it lacks modern features(js) it needs to set a cookie to force older youtube interface) or load
https://www.youtube.com/?disable_polymer=true

>>10
>>11
Cool, good to know

xpinstall.signatures.required in about:config needs to be set to 'false' in Waterfox, i think, because the addons use the same cert.

Ironically this whole "Secure signed extensions approved by Mozilla" exposed the backdoor they use to install privileged extensions as "studies".

Btw don't use IceCat if you want to use old addons, its uses the newest codebase of firefox where they dropped legacy support for addons and old NPAPI interface which Waterfox retained(more or less, some really old addons have problems).

>>10
Safe only if you don't count any of the unfixed vulnerabilities in it.

>>14

Ironically this whole "Secure signed extensions approved by Mozilla" exposed the backdoor they use to install privileged extensions as "studies".

It exposed nothing. That was known all along.

>>15
Indeed, do not use IceCat. Use Whonix + tor browser instead.

>>16
Whonix must be run inside Qubes if your hardware is less than 20 years old.

If you need:
Bleeding Edge, Don't care about privacy -> Firefox Nightly
Latest Features and JS, want some placebo privacy -> IceWeasel
Stable, Privacy, only webextension support -> IceCat
Legacy Addons, Privacy and compatibility -> Waterfox
Nostalgia and ancient addons -> Pale Moon/Basilisk

It's a good idea to prevent Chromium (garbage) from becoming the only relevant browser engine. Therefore I simply can't justify switching from Firefox to Dissenter Free Speech Web Browser at this time. I'm also not a luddite so I will be passing on shitweasel and watertrash and returning to Firefox proper once the issues are resolved. Thank you.

>>18
IceWeasel has not been a thing for a few years now. IceCat changes the user agent and you can be easily detected, in addition to that they rarely push security updates. Waterfox is a security mess. Pale Moon/Basilisk - nobody uses these, security issue.

The only correct solution is.. tor browser, or curl + less, or w3m.

>>20
Dissenter Free Speech Web Browser is fine, don't listen to >>19

>>20
It exists, its ESR firefox with their own patches.
https://wiki.debian.org/Iceweasel#How_to_install_Iceweasel_.28Firefox.29

How do Firefoxians manage to live without "Legacy Addons" ?
Just listing addons marked as Legacy on waterfox:

Multiple Tab Handler and TabMixPlus - both invaluable when you have lots of tabs.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxytab/ <-- this is a pale imitation

Dorando keyconfig - rebind keys to other shortcuts and scripts(create Privileged JS snippet run on custom keys - mini-extensions ). Probably most underrated extension ever.

Request Policy Continued - best control addon, very intuitive interface.

DownThemAll+DownThemAll Anti-contrainer - best mass downloader for Firefox.

Classic Theme Restorer - not essential,but great to minimize visual space use and reduce Australis quirks.

Table Tools2 - sorts table columns, a bit buggy but really useful for sites which don't have sorting.

Password Exporter - allows to export/import all passwords in text form.

Saved Password editor - edit passwords.

ViewSourceWith - view page source/file in custom program

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/s3menu-wizard/
Menu Wizard and other stuff could rewrite and rearrange Firefox menus. WebExtensions can't even touch anything outside webpages.

>>24
Yeah it was a real betrayal of Firefox loyalists.

>>22

<!> As of 9th of June, 2016 the package Firefox-ESR replaces Iceweasel, and is in Wheezy and Jessie security repositories.

Yeah no

>>23
They integrated the multiple tabs handler, kind of.

>>23

when you have lots of tabs

Stop living in the past, today's on the go consumer doesn't use a browser with tabs.

>>27
Due genius architecture of Chrome that eats nearly a gig per "window"

>>27
I can load 700+ tabs on 8GB while Chrome cucks need 64GB of ram to load even 300.

>>29
You can't load 300 tabs in Chrome because its tabs bar can't hold more than 100 at a time.

>>30
Behold the 128GB machine vs Chrome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlACtfhII0w

Switched back to FF, lads. Chromium is ass.