they have it up on their official blog now. I updated (Android) and all my stuff came back, so, crisis averted. one day wasn’t so bad.
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Got my desktop version back as well. Don’t get me wrong, i do really like firefox and how much control you have over it as a user but i do feel it’s lost its way a bit since the quantum release and the deprecating of useful features like live bookmarks or even stopping a gif from playing, which you used to be able to do but now need an extension for.
Speaking of this new version, it seems to have disabled my british english dictionary for spell checking.
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Is that your favourite dictionary? What a colourful choice. 
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It’s the law over here, it’s the queen’s english afterall. None of that colonial spelling muck for her madge.
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Are there any browsers around anymore that don’t have issues? I gave up on Firefox a couple of years ago because it was slow on my main machine (a 2009 model) and occasionally would eat up all my memory. (I still use it when running Linux.) I’m currently using Opera, which isn’t terrible, but it has so many built-ins that it spawns dozens of processes in the task manager when it starts, and it doesn’t allow navigation to the previous page with the backspace. Similar experiences with Brave and Vivaldi. On a new Windows 10 machine I played with Edge for a while, and thought it was surprisingly good, but since it is MS I assume it is full of telemetry, also I understand they are switching to the Chrome engine.
I remember being very happy with Mosaic in the 90s, everything seems to have gone downhill from there.
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Why not try pale moon and waterfox? They’re both forks of firefox and although i’ve not tried waterfox i do use pale moon and it feels very much like a classic version of firefox before it went all bloated and confusing (i still don’t fully understand the cookies options). I would add that extension options for pale moon are kinda limited but you can still install the essentials like ublock origin and umatrix.
ETA: Having said all that… i’ve just been checking out the addons for pale moon and umatrix is no longer listed (i’m using an older version) but there is a fork for that called ematrix. This is the problem using a forked browser based on a legacy version of firefox i suppose so god bless the open source community for maintaining legacy addons.
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Aren’t derivatives like Pale Moon and Waterfox somewhat problematic because they don’t necessarily get Firefox’s security updates in a timely fashion?
On an unrelated note, it would be neat if someone illustrated a dramatic spike in web ad revenue corresponding to the onset of this bug.
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I have Pale Moon as a secondary browser on one machine. It is OK.
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I ran into this thing as well… enabling studies and restarting the browser brought the extensions back quickly. I then turned studies off, and everything is OK now.
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I didn’t think so really, if you look at the release notes for pale moon you can see they do plug vulnerabilities monthly but someone may know better about this stuff than me. I should probably add a note here about the open source community often being far more on it than the large platforms, particularly microsoft (screams silently) either refusing to acknowledge problems for a long time or updates that fuck something else up.
Ghacks have a review of what mozilla should now do to prevent this happening in the future and allowing already installed extensions to still run if the user wishes should be implemented and i agree, it’s completely daft an expired cert on mozilla’s end should block your installed extensions.
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@codinghorror @sam
I wrote the post I’m replying to two nights ago, so I assume a new issue I’m having is not related to the FF kerfuffle (?) but ever since writing above post, I haven’t been able to load bbs.boingboing pages. they just finish loading and the page is blank. loading another Discourse bbs had no issue. finally, today I started disabling add-ons one by one and got this page to load with NoScript turned off (!).
I’ve been coming here with NoScript enabled since forever, though.
running Firefox latest on Android 7.1.1.
not really comfortable with white listing these pages what with the creep of sponsored posts etc on the main page lately.
Should I white list or can y’all repo my issue? what to do?
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Er what? JavaScript is definitely required for Discourse to work, it is a JavaScript app?
You might need to whitelist a new host in NoScript. I’ve had to do that every once in a while as they move something to a new host.
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NoScript does not block other Discourse sites, and never blocked this one until 2 days ago
never had this happen before. how does one identify what to whitelist?
How it happens for me:
- Go to the BBS
- Notice something is broken all of a sudden
- Pop up the NoScript whitelist
- Enable the new host that shows up in the “default” category
- BBS works again
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looks like that’s got it, thank you!
it just said it was discourse.cdn so not sure what’s so new about that but anyway I appreciate you.
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