Re: [CentOS] Firefox addons disabled - temporary fix

2019-05-28 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 05/05/2019 22:21, wwp wrote:
> Hello Frank,
> 
> 
> On Sat, 4 May 2019 11:09:22 -0600 Frank Cox  wrote:
> 
>> The currently available fix for Firefox doesn't work with ESR, but there's a 
>> temporary fix that works.  At least, it's working for me:
>>
>> Go to about:config and set xpinstall.signatures.required to false.
> [snip]
> 
> And extensions.langpacks.signatures.required for language packs.
> 
> 
> Regards,
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Does anyone know what the latest on this is?  Specifically can I reset
the xpinstall.signatures.required?  My machine is running C7 patched today.

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Re: [CentOS] Firefox addons disabled - temporary fix

2019-05-05 Thread wwp
Hello Frank,


On Sat, 4 May 2019 11:09:22 -0600 Frank Cox  wrote:

> The currently available fix for Firefox doesn't work with ESR, but there's a 
> temporary fix that works.  At least, it's working for me:
> 
> Go to about:config and set xpinstall.signatures.required to false.
[snip]

And extensions.langpacks.signatures.required for language packs.


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Re: [CentOS] Firefox addons disabled - temporary fix

2019-05-04 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 04/05/2019 à 19:09, Frank Cox a écrit :
> The Firefox folks say that a fix for ESR will be coming at some
> point, but at least this gets things working again in the short
> term.

uBlock Origin has been disabled on all our machines here, and all
Firefox installations switched from french to english.

Nice job, Mozilla.

:o(

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Re: [CentOS] Firefox addons disabled - temporary fix

2019-05-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 4 May 2019 19:20:02 +0200
Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote:

> There (Mozilla's) certificate expired, that is the reason. IMHO ignoring 
> signatures checks is not the way to go. It opens a (small) attack window.

I suppose you pick your poison.

Your other choices are to use a different web browser (how much do you trust 
Google Chrome?) or use Firefox without any add-ons and accept the security 
risks that come with malvertising and unknown bits of javascript running on 
random websites.

What disturbs me is that, regardless of intention, we see an embedded timebomb 
where after an arbitrary date your Firefox installation will stop working as 
expected.


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Re: [CentOS] Firefox addons disabled - temporary fix

2019-05-04 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS


> Am 04.05.2019 um 19:09 schrieb Frank Cox :
> 
> The currently available fix for Firefox doesn't work with ESR, but there's a 
> temporary fix that works.  At least, it's working for me:
> 
> Go to about:config and set xpinstall.signatures.required to false.
> 
> The Firefox folks say that a fix for ESR will be coming at some point, but at 
> least this gets things working again in the short term.
> 
> It's not clear to me if the fixed ESR (when available) will require a new 
> Firefox rpm to be created and installed or if it's something that will just 
> show up by magic and start working or if any steps will have to be taken to 
> enable it.


There (Mozilla's) certificate expired, that is the reason. IMHO ignoring 
signatures checks is not the way to go. It opens a (small) attack window.

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[CentOS] Firefox addons disabled - temporary fix

2019-05-04 Thread Frank Cox
The currently available fix for Firefox doesn't work with ESR, but there's a 
temporary fix that works.  At least, it's working for me:

Go to about:config and set xpinstall.signatures.required to false.

The Firefox folks say that a fix for ESR will be coming at some point, but at 
least this gets things working again in the short term.

It's not clear to me if the fixed ESR (when available) will require a new 
Firefox rpm to be created and installed or if it's something that will just 
show up by magic and start working or if any steps will have to be taken to 
enable it.

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