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Today, nearly every extension and addon in Mozilla Firefox got disabled due to an expired certificate that was used to sign these extensions / addons.
To fix this, go to about:config and search for xpinstall.signatures.required. Set it to false, then remove and re-add your addons.
A method to design records so that they're allocated on a specific byte boundary, such as 16 bytes, 512 bytes, 4096 bytes, etc.