Extension management is just fucking dumb.
Recently my AdBlocker extension in Firefox was disabled. At first I thought it was just a bug, but after I closed and restarted Firefox, it was still disabled, installing various other ad blocking extensions was thwarted by Firefox claiming these extensions are corrupt! I tried other approaches, including installing from github and from third party extension library; all are stopped by Firefox. I checked Firefox update, it claims that the latest version I can upgrade to is v127 (I'm using v126), so I think it's not due to Firefox not up to date. I spent a lot of time figuring these out, most pointing to Firefox banning Chinese users from using ad blocking extensions. After all these frustrations, I updated Firefox to v127, thinking updating to the latest version won't hurt, and these extensions are still disabled, installing ad blocking extension is still not successful. But somehow I checked whether I'm using the latest version, and BAM, I can now upgrade to v136. After the update, all these problems were solved. IF ONLY Firefox can provide some useful info of why my extension is now disabled, and why installing extensions are not successful, it would save me a lot of time and trouble. You dumb lazy people!
Modified by lionheartwon
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Or maybe instead of jumping to insulting conclusions and just ask why are your extensions disabled and you are not able to install new ones. This is due to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/root-certificate-expiration since March 14 and you using the older 126.0 Release which does not meet the minimum requirements.
You need Firefox 128.0 (Release or ESR) or later or if you have Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or macOS 10.12, 10.13, 101.4 OS's then you need Firefox 115.13.0esr or later though 115.21.0esr is current. You would then not have disabled extensions and be able to install new extensions.
https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/desktop-release/ https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/desktop-esr/
Modified by James (On Leave)
James said
Or maybe instead of jumping to insulting conclusions and just ask why are your extensions disabled and you are not able to install new ones. This is due to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/root-certificate-expiration since March 14 and you using the older 126.0 Release which does not meet the minimum requirements. You need Firefox 128.0 (Release or ESR) or later or if you have Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or macOS 10.12, 10.13, 101.4 OS's then you need Firefox 115.13.0esr or later though 115.21.0esr is current. You would then not have disabled extensions and be able to install new extensions. https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/desktop-release/ https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/desktop-esr/
I updated my question before I saw your reply (did not expect a reply this quick). I'm very sorry for my rant and false accusation. I was very frustrated by this problem and wasted a lot of time. I did not make the accusation out of thin air, there are a lot of posts claiming that, and provides solutions to solve that. Anyway, people shouldn't need to be an expert of Firefox to use it. There is no indication of why these extensions are disabled, and blaming the extensions being corrupt when installing new extensions failed is just misleading. The update management is misleading as well, I was under the impression that the latest version is v127, and I was using v126, so naturally I thought I am quite up to date.
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