All my Firefox addons stopped working

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ITT: Ridiculous tin foil hat conspiracies of software from some of the most respected open source developers in the community
ie;

Brendan Eich - creator of JavaScript and co-founder of the Mozilla project/Foundation/Corporation. CEO and co-creator of the Brave browser along with;

Brian Bondy (amazing, humble guy) who also worked on Firefox and the Khan Academy (non-profit educational organisation).

Yan Zhu interviewed Chelsea Manning at the HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) conference in 2018, (W3C/TAG to document web standards around End-to-End Encryption and the Web) Brave Browser, Firefox, Tor Browser, HTTPS Everywhere, Privacy Badger etc.

The list goes on and on; there are too many great open source developers working on Firefox to list. They follow the 10 principles of the Mozilla Manifesto - contributing to building a better Internet.

But my add-ons are broken, therefore Firefox is ā€¦ [insert clichĆ©d level1 sheeple response here]

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That worked for me. Made the change on mobile.
The about:config really confused me in my other post. I spent 10-15 minutes trying to find it within the settings menu

Later tried copying and pasting about:config in the address bar, which allowed me to change the setting.

figured it out, got it working on regular firefox. All my extensions are back :smiley: Iā€™m going to work on transferring settings and keep waterfox as a backup for when mozilla gets caught doing something actually shady.

On another note, I had this bug was a issue for me on android and windows. Not quite sure what the cause was. Is it possible that I was using those devices last night? Itā€™s weird because my desktop and laptop versions of firefox on Fedora had no issues. Maybe mozilla ran a bug fix overnight?

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You likely opted into the ā€œstudiesā€ telemetry on the installs that had it fixed.

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Still no real patch to fix the issue by normal and correct methodsā€¦

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June 10

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The patch will be released when the three-letter / six-letter agency decides that the operation has been completed.

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Jup 48 hours + later, still no official fix. :slight_smile:

This is just insane.

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@thevillageidiot is there an android waterfox? coz didnā€™t see a mention on their website and nothing on fdroid

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Tell it to the people who use Tor Browser where noscript has stopped working.
But letā€™s not go in the direction of tin foil hat ā€¦ no no no. :slight_smile:

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Yeah thats kinda an issue.
I personally donā€™t use tor.
But i can imagine that there are many people who still do.

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woops my merge finger slipped

12 posts were merged into an existing topic: /dev/null

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More and more people are starting to use TOR . privacy is a serious concern ā€¦ Especially in the EU now as digital rights seem to become more and more restricted

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TOR is too slow for everyday use for privacy purposes. People only really use it if they live in an authoritative regime like China/Turkey/etc or are looking to buy heroin.

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Itā€™s a ā€œbetaā€ on Google Play. Unfortunately the person publishing the Android Waterfox doesnā€™t really know F-Droid exists. Remember, heā€™s only one person.

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Can confirm

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There a at least a few more reasons than that.

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Yeah! donā€™t forget about Ecstasy, Crack, and everyoneā€™s favourite; Meth!

/s Obvioulsy. Because it needs saying?

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I would not of taken it that far :)~