[dba-Tech] Goodbye - Firefox?

[Jim Lawrence]

I do not know whether your problems with FF are about third party functionality disappearing. There has been a push to make FF more secure especially as virtually everything we do on computer today runs through our browser. Some of the applications supported by FF were porous, as they could actually insert code right down to the administration command level...all of those apps are being phased out.  

I don't know if whether the list of apps, you showed, were faulty but they should be able to be easily checked out.

I am currently using FF 66.0.3.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "rockysmolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
To: "Off Topic" <dba-ot at databaseadvisors.com>, "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 4, 2019 12:33:42 PM
Subject: [dba-Tech] Goodbye - Firefox?

After the recent Firefox upgrade some of my 'stuff' disappeared.  So I went
to the add on manager and got this information:

 

Starting in Firefox version
<https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/find-what-version-firefox-you-are-usin
g>  57, only extensions built using WebExtensions APIs will work. Not sure
if your add-ons are affected? See Firefox add-on technology is modernizing
<https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-add-technology-modernizing>
and these Frequently Asked Questions
<https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/frequently-asked-questions-firefox-add
on>  for details.

 

And promptly disabled:

 

Adblock Plus

Dark Theme for Firefox

EPUB Reader

Google Translator (!)

And 

LastPass.

 

I know they'[re trying to protect me from the bad guys.  But to simply
disable my add-ons without any warning or explanation and leave me to hunt
down the cause.is pretty high-handed.

 

Now I gotta go find replacements. L

 

Rocky

 

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