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What happened to my extensions?

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All of a sudden, I got a bar saying my extensions had been disabled. Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere and Keeper are gone and will not reinstall. Canvas Defender remains active.

I ran updates. That didn't help.

What happened?

All of a sudden, I got a bar saying my extensions had been disabled. Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere and Keeper are gone and will not reinstall. Canvas Defender remains active. I ran updates. That didn't help. What happened?

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Mozilla has rolled-out a fix for this. The fix will be automatically applied in the background within the next few hours, you don’t need to take active steps.

In order to be able to provide this fix on short notice, they are using the Studies system. You can check if you have studies enabled

  1. Go to [=] > Preferences > Privacy & Security.
  2. Make sure Allow Firefox to install and run studies is check marked.

I you had it disabled, you can disable studies again after your add-ons have been re-enabled.

They are working on a general fix that doesn't need to rely on this and will keep you updated.

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There is a problem with the certificate that is used to sign some extensions. This is being worked by the Add-ons team.

See:

At about 6:10 PST we received a report that a certificate issue for Firefox is causing add-ons to stop working and add-on installs to fail.
Our team is actively working on a fix. We will update as soon as we have more information.
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Chosen Solution

Mozilla has rolled-out a fix for this. The fix will be automatically applied in the background within the next few hours, you don’t need to take active steps.

In order to be able to provide this fix on short notice, they are using the Studies system. You can check if you have studies enabled

  1. Go to [=] > Preferences > Privacy & Security.
  2. Make sure Allow Firefox to install and run studies is check marked.

I you had it disabled, you can disable studies again after your add-ons have been re-enabled.

They are working on a general fix that doesn't need to rely on this and will keep you updated.

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