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Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

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Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

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Post by happypuppy »

If the developer and nightly versions of Firefox 9which are supposed to work properly) make you uncomfortable there are firefox versions that can deliver the same usability and are not affected by this bug.

If you use Android, you can get Fennec from the F-Droid online store.

If you use Windows, you can get Waterfox here: https://www.waterfox.net/

Fennec is just a fork of Firefox with telemetry disabled by default and known third party trackers removed.

Waterfox is a fork of Firefox that tries to be more geared toward users who want more control, its main differences are telemetry is disabled by default and it is supposed to support more extensions but I have not tested this out.

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#112

Post by bob_z »

We're in the same boat... Still using FF 56 because it doesn't break important add-ons and now this cluster-F. It's disabled most every add-on thereby killing the browser's functionality.

Windows 10/FF 56 setting extensions.legacy.enabled, true and xpinstall.signatures.required, false doesn't work but does in Linux Mint 19/FF 66 does.

We also added app.update.auto, false to stop Firefox from auto-updating untill they un-F this mess

By the way, the "hot-fix" doesn't work for Win10/FF 56

hotfix-update-xpi-intermediate%40mozilla.com-1.0.2-signed.xpi

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#113

Post by [deleted] »

bob_z wrote: post #112

We're in the same boat... Still using FF 56 because it doesn't break important add-ons and now this cluster-F. It's disabled most every add-on thereby killing the browser's functionality. Windows 10/FF 56 setting extensions.legacy.enabled, true and xpinstall.signatures.required, false doesn't work but does in Linux Mint 19/FF 66 does. We also added app.update.auto, false to stop Firefox from auto-updating untill they…

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Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#114

Post by sanlyx »

happypuppy wrote: post #111

If the developer and nightly versions of Firefox 9which are supposed to work properly) make you uncomfortable there are firefox versions that can deliver the same usability and are not affected by this bug. If you use Android, you can get Fennec from the F-Droid online store. If you use Windows, you can get Waterfox here: https://www.waterfox.net/ Fennec is just a fork of Firefox with telemetry disabled by default an…

I'm using Fennec F-Droid and can confirm this bug also affected me, and I really don't know if it can be solved without an update (which is not yet available, as it seems)

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#116

Post by HappySurfer2019 »

bob_z wrote: post #112

We're in the same boat... Still using FF 56 because it doesn't break important add-ons and now this cluster-F. It's disabled most every add-on thereby killing the browser's functionality. Windows 10/FF 56 setting extensions.legacy.enabled, true and xpinstall.signatures.required, false doesn't work but does in Linux Mint 19/FF 66 does. We also added app.update.auto, false to stop Firefox from auto-updating untill they…

ANy solution yet, Bob?

Re: Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

#117

Post by bob_z »

HappySurfer2019 wrote: post #116
bob_z wrote: post #112

We're in the same boat... Still using FF 56 because it doesn't break important add-ons and now this cluster-F. It's disabled most every add-on thereby killing the browser's functionality. Windows 10/FF 56 setting extensions.legacy.enabled, true and xpinstall.signatures.required, false doesn't work but does in Linux Mint 19/FF 66 does. We also added app.update.auto, false to stop Firefox from auto-updating untill they…

ANy solution yet, Bob?

Well... A "solution" is to run Linux Mint 19/FF 66, disable any further updates of Firefox, run the patch. However, this does not solve the Windows 10/FF 56 issue. I'm real pissed at Mozilla for this HUGE hassle
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