1565348 - Firefox Updater does not work on macOS 10.15 Catalina

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1563631

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Description

[miles_b]

Attachment: Screen Shot 2019-07-11 at 1.09.55 PM.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0 Safari/605.1.15

Steps to reproduce:

Attempted to allow Firefox to self-update.

Actual results:

Was presented with a dialogue box stating that:
"Firefox Software Update.app" can't be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software. This software needs to be updated. Contact the developer for more information.

I attempted to open the app via the security pane in System Preferences, but that has not worked. Now I cannot launch Firefox at all - I just get this warning from the OS repeatedly.

Expected results:

The updater should have been able to run, and Firefox should launch.

Comment 1

[miles_b]

This behavior is persisting after downloading a fresh copy of Firefox 68.0 from the web site.

Comment 2

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

thanks for filing. This is a dupe of Bug 1563631. There is a workaround in that bug until we uplift the notarization work to 68.