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Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

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Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

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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.

"Those extensions are making it harder to correlate your interactions with different companies"

No, this is not a reason.

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#107
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.

Worked for me! Thanks! PS: It happened to me on the same esr version (only for windows)

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#108
post #78
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.

I believe both are useful. the second one enables installing new addons and the first one enables disabled addons (unless you already removed them)
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