All extensions disabled in Firefox 62.0b6 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

[Xavier Guillot]

Hi,

This is related to Firefox-next version from the Mozilla Team ppa :

https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-next

Steps to reproduce:

On Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, with the ppa Mozilla Firefox Next activated, updates this morning (9th July), which installed Firefox 62.0b6 64 bits.

Actual results:

At FF restart, all extensions were totally disabled. On the "Tools - Addons" pane, only the button "Remove" is possible, no way to reactive extensions.

I only use Linux, Firefox profile is in Ubuntu.

Tried to uninstall and reinstall one of the addons from Mozilla site, got the error message :

"the addon downloaded from this site could not be installed because it appears to be corrupt"

Expected results:

Webextensions should continue to work.

Other users seem impacted (see the last comments):
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/07/05/extensions-in-firefox-62/

[Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24)]

Upstream report :

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1474255

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Rik Mills (rikmills)]

Getting user reports in IRC that this is affecting the PPA builds, so confirmed I guess.

I'm using the Mozilla built binaries, and all is fine.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1780472, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.