Firefox 42 has disabled Kapersky 2016
As per the title my problem Mozilla (ver42) has disabled Kapersky 2016 because FF could not verify it! I have read all the geek speak on various posts which sadly mean nothing to me The only advice I have seen thus far is to uninstall and reinstall KSY!! Which I take to be the FF version of Alt-Ctl-Delete? I have used FF for years, and have it on the 3 machines we use, but if push comes to shove sadly Mozilla will have to go
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Firefox 43 disables unsigned add-ons and Kaspersky has been lax about getting their Firefox add-ons signed by Mozilla and then sent out to their userbase.
There is an override for Firefox 43 that you can enable.
Override add-on signing (advanced users): You can override this setting by changing the xpinstall.signatures.required preference to false in the Firefox Configuration Editor (about:config typed in the URL bar). Support is not available for any changes made with the Configuration Editor so please do this at your own risk.
Note: That pref will be gone in Firefox 44 (Release slated for Jan 26. 2016) so user's of currently un-signed extensions should contact the developers of those extensions and prod them into getting their act together & get their extensions signed by Mozilla. Otherwise the users of those extensions will be SOL come the release of Firefox 44. Mozilla has already pushed back the version in which this new security feature was to be enabled from Firefox 40 to 44. I doubt if there will be any further reprieve.
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Firefox 43 disables unsigned add-ons and Kaspersky has been lax about getting their Firefox add-ons signed by Mozilla and then sent out to their userbase.
There is an override for Firefox 43 that you can enable.
Override add-on signing (advanced users): You can override this setting by changing the xpinstall.signatures.required preference to false in the Firefox Configuration Editor (about:config typed in the URL bar). Support is not available for any changes made with the Configuration Editor so please do this at your own risk.
Note: That pref will be gone in Firefox 44 (Release slated for Jan 26. 2016) so user's of currently un-signed extensions should contact the developers of those extensions and prod them into getting their act together & get their extensions signed by Mozilla. Otherwise the users of those extensions will be SOL come the release of Firefox 44. Mozilla has already pushed back the version in which this new security feature was to be enabled from Firefox 40 to 44. I doubt if there will be any further reprieve.
Hi Thanks for this; I understand it but will not be following the adavnced suggestion: I know my IT limitations! When I took my degree in computer engineering Bill Gates was on the cusp of graduation and Windows still on the drawing board; so my knowledge is MS DOS, Cobalt & Basic and well time expired! So outside a wasted mail to Kapersky I will switch to a different browser; which as I say is not my first choice action. The Kapersky forum babbles on that it doesn't matter? But thankfully I only have Kapersky on one PC.
Rich
Hey, I was in an electronics / computer program 10 years before MS-DOS was bought by Bill Gates from Tim Paterson employer for sale to IBM, and then sold as MS-DOS.