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Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

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Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

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Post by enriquto »

SquareWheel wrote: post #24
rgrieselhuber wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Mozilla / Firefox teams must have a bunch of people monitoring HN threads. I always notice very aggressive downvoting whenever FF is criticized.

Calling people shills without proof is not an honest argument. Sometimes people just have different views. I downvote those comments because they're unsubstantiated and needlessly pessimistic. Mozilla is still one of the better organizations out there.

As author of the original "pessimistic" comment, I want to say that I agree 100% with you. Mozilla is indeed the most important free software project today. Thus, I am very sad and pessimistic when they exhibit subpar behavior such as this.

Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

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Post by INTPenis »

V-2 wrote: post #22

I'm still on 66.0.3 and the issue resolved itself, I believe, yesterday...

Same. I found some pretty good instructions[1] so all my plugins started working this morning, CET. And you can disable the studies when you're done.

1. https://forums.informaction.com/viewtopic.php?p=100053#p1000...

Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

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Post by theferalrobot »

tomc1985 wrote: post #27
theferalrobot wrote: post #17

I tried Firefox recently because I want to ditch my Chrome habit and I love Mozilla but it had serious performance issues on all of my macs (fans would spin at max after 5 min, a long standing and known issue I guess) along with some real oddities on my android. Between bad performance and these many recent missteps I ended up ditching it for just another chromium based browser out there. Though my experience is some…

Firefox on mac used to be like that, but recent versions (last year or two) haven't had that issue You're probably being downvoted for negging others' beloved browser

I gave it a spin about 4 months ago and stuck with it for about 2 months and was still having the issue. A Mozilla employee pointed me here to watch for updates on the issue:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042

Edit: Also relevant: https://github.com/servo/webrender/issues/3115

Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

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Post by ufo »

V-2 wrote: post #22

I'm still on 66.0.3 and the issue resolved itself, I believe, yesterday...

Mozilla pushed a hotfix yesterday but it only worked on certain builds of Firefox, and only for users which had the user studies setting activated. Today's update should be a more permanent fix.

Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

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Post by curiousgal »

kbirkeland wrote: post #5
tinus_hn wrote: post #2

Yet the official download on download.mozilla.org is still the old, broken version.

AFAICT still no update out for the android version either

I just disbaled the checksignatute flag yesterday and that solved it. It's not like I install add-ons all the time.

Re: Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

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Post by rhabarba »

theferalrobot wrote: post #17

I tried Firefox recently because I want to ditch my Chrome habit and I love Mozilla but it had serious performance issues on all of my macs (fans would spin at max after 5 min, a long standing and known issue I guess) along with some real oddities on my android. Between bad performance and these many recent missteps I ended up ditching it for just another chromium based browser out there. Though my experience is some…

The past two years with Firefox have made me gradually dislike Chrome less. Yesterday, I pulled the plug and switched to Vivaldi completely.

I wouldn't be surprised if Firefox 75-or-so is based on Chrome anyway.

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