[dba-Tech] [dba-OT] Goodbye - Firefox?

[Stuart McLachlan]

Ah, you're not actually talking about post-57.

Turns out there's a temporary glitch in FF which should be fixed soon. 

"Late on Friday May 3rd, we became aware of an issue with Firefox that prevented existing 
and new add-ons from running or being installed. We are very sorry for the inconvenience 
caused to people who use Firefox.

Our team has identified and rolled-out a fix for all Firefox Desktop users on Release, Beta 
and Nightly. The fix will be automatically applied in the background within the next few hours. 
No active steps need to be taken to make add-ons work again. In particular, please do not 
delete and/or re-install any add-ons as an attempt to fix the issue. Deleting an add-on 
removes any data associated with it, where disabling and re-enabling does not."



On 5 May 2019 at 7:47, Stuart McLachlan wrote:

> Not recent. As I said over at DBA-Tech, this all happened in November
> 2017 and was discussed here at the time.
> 
> Have you not upgraded FF in 18 months?
> 
> 
> On 4 May 2019 at 12:33, Rocky Smolin wrote:
> 
> > 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-
> > ar e-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-moderni
> > zi ng> and these Frequently Asked Questions
> > <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/frequently-asked-questions-fir
> > ef ox-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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