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Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

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Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#91
At first I thought it was just my pc messing up till i started to look up and read other ppls commnets. Clearly it's an issue with firefox completely disabling all addons, extensions, and themes. I Hate google chrome but appartly I have to swtith from firefox becuse I cant put up with this issue for a moment. Fireox please fix this issue

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#92
At first I thought it was just my pc messing up till i started to look up and read other ppls commnets. Clearly it's an issue with firefox completely disabling all addons, extensions, and themes. I Hate google chrome but appartly I have to swtith from firefox becuse I cant put up with this issue for a moment

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#98

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After this time chrome ..! Trust's over.

What's there to trust in Chrome? Google not only gets to see everything you are doing that interests them in the browser but also refuses to allow full functionality and/or use of various extensions (depending on the extension) that are available in firefox. Besides, would you trust a browser by a corporation who tries to hinder those who seek to take control over their mobile devices, try to get spyware into everyth…

this^

I noticed this in anytime Ive used Chrome in the past, and it's only been on a FF issue that has me scrambling for a temporary replacement.

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#99
I just "fixed" mine, at least temporarily, that is if this still an issue for all/most. I just did a "refresh firefox" option, which clears and reinstalled all my locked add-ons/extensions and theme.

A fix? votes out, this could very well be temporary...but my customization is gone/reset, so there's that bit of nuisance.

try it if still stuck.

https://support.mozilla.org/tr/kb/reset-preferences-fix-prob...

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#100
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I think this fail-closed behavior is more of a security issue than the one it is trying to solve. All of my security add-ons - Privacy Badger, NoScript, Decentraleyes, and many more were disabled. Even worse, it happened without notice to the user. One moment I was browsing the internet (just barely) secured by these add-ons, and the next moment, all of them disappeared (without warning) and I only noticed when I saw…

I love my privacy too but you’ve got to keep the magnitude of things in mind. Those extensions are making it harder to correlate your interactions with different companies, this fail-closed behavior is protecting you against criminals gaining access to all your online accounts.

Bullshit. Those extensions protect against both. Javascript being an important criminal vector. This fail-closed behaviour is disabling certified code because of an arbitrary date. At time of install the code was verified.

The code didn't change since. Mozilla is stupid for doing this.

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