Signing stopped working since firefox v52 and NPAPI end of life

open-eid / firefox-pkcs11-loader

DEPRECATED This package provides a helper script for Firefox that sets up the browser for authentication with Estonian ID-card

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Signing stopped working since firefox v52 and NPAPI end of life #1

Closed kaarmann closed 7 years ago

kaarmann commented 7 years ago

Firefox has dropped support for NPAPI since version 52. Hence the signing plugin doesn't load any more. Add-on is still loaded and auth works fine. The workaround is to use the Firefox ESR, where the signing plugin works fine.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-to-drop-support-for-all-npapi-plugins-in-firefox-52-except-flash/