Firefox Disabled All My Extentions • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

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Post by fiorilj » Sat, May 04, 2019, 3:36 AM UTC

Same thing happened to me

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

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Post by ChummyKaye » Sat, May 04, 2019, 3:38 AM UTC

Same here. Opened Firefox after finally getting back online after some rogue Spectrum tech showed up and no-notice, no-knock, no-call shut us off because he claimed there was some unspecified issue with our modem. ALL of my extensions, notably security add-ons I choose to use for obvious reasons, are gone. You think you can go to the web and not be hassled, especially by something like your choice of browsers. What a joke. Once I can recover how I had my firefox set up I'm seeking an alternative.

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

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Post by setha2z » Sat, May 04, 2019, 3:42 AM UTC

Same thing happened to me

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

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Post by cesarb » Sat, May 04, 2019, 3:45 AM UTC

dmitrygr wrote: post #24

I imagine chrome user numbers will grow tomorrow, for better or worse, google chrome team would never let something like this happen

> for better or worse, google chrome team would never let something like this happen

A few years ago, Chrome crashed for everyone on the date daylight saving time started (a quick search tells me it probably was https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=287821). So not only would they let something like this happen, it did already happen.

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

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Post by pepa65 » Sat, May 04, 2019, 3:46 AM UTC

mmore wrote: post #25

SAI_Peregrinus wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disabling xpinstall.signatures.required works.

You need to be on nightly, dev, or ESR for this to work.

It works on regular installs. I'm on 66.0.3 from the Ubuntu 18.04's repo. From about:config set xpinstall.signatures.required to True.

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

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Post by pepa65 » Sat, May 04, 2019, 3:59 AM UTC

orbach wrote: post #68

Would going to a previous version of Firefox solve the problem? I'm at 66.0.3, so maybe going back to 66.0.2?

It works on 66.0.3 from the Ubuntu 18.04's repo. From about:config set xpinstall.signatures.required to True.

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

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Post by mrbestdonuts » Sat, May 04, 2019, 4:01 AM UTC

Idk in others platforms but on android i just fix (bugzilla post) that by installing version 66.02 and change value in about:config for: "xpinstall.signatures.required false".

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

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Post by pepa65 » Sat, May 04, 2019, 4:04 AM UTC

djh2400 wrote: post #44

I got all extensions to work temporarily by forcing the following settings in user.js (or could be set manually in about:config): user_pref( "extensions.legacy.enabled", true ); user_pref( "xpinstall.signatures.required", false ); FWIW, I'm on Debian Stable with Firefox 60.6.1esr.

I think only the 2nd is needed, my extensions.legacy.enabled is False.

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

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Post by pepa65 » Sat, May 04, 2019, 4:14 AM UTC

were491 wrote: post #49

ffs i used tree style tab, and now my over 300 tabs i cannot access

The keystokes still work. :-) But setting xpinstall.signatures.required to True in about:config fixes the problem.

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

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Post by randombinary » Sat, May 04, 2019, 4:20 AM UTC

yup. just happened to me.