Apparently all the add-ons I rely upon in Firefox have just been summarily disabled.

[conuly]

Not happy.

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[silverusagi]

Ditto.

[conuly]

I need my compass menu back! And the ads gone!

[sovay]

Apparently all the add-ons I rely upon in Firefox have just been summarily disabled.

I just saw that! I thought it was me. What happened?

[conuly]

Pointless glitch, apparently.

[sovay]

Pointless glitch, apparently.

Well, if they fix it, that's better than permanent unannounced deprecation. Thanks.

[conuly]

No word on when/if it will be fixed, of course.

[oursin]

Oh, is that what it is? I woke up to this too. So annoying.

[mindstalk]

Workaround https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bkcjoa/all_of_my_addons_got_disabled_and_they_are_all/emggvbx/

Explanation https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bkhtv8/heres_whats_going_on_with_your_addons_being/

[halfshellvenus]

Well, uh-oh. :(

I think the only add-on I really use for Firefox is the ad-blocker.

Now, for Windows, I was using a very basic thing called "the headphone jack," which worked fine for years on Windows 7. But within a couple of months of being forced up to Windows 10, it stopped. There isn't even a 'knob' to turn it back on again.

Software. It comes, it goes... :(

[conuly]

I think the only add-on I really use for Firefox is the ad-blocker.

Likewise, but also my compass menu. I love my compass menu.

[pebblerocker]

Ugh, awful. I am replying from Chrome, but... look, I can get used to things not looking the way they used to if it's nothing but a different feel. But I loaded the same article in the broken Firefox, where it was covered in ads and pop-ups but was legibly black-on-white, and in Chrome, where the text was in an extremely lightweight grey font on white, which didn't change at all when I changed what options were available in Chrome's settings. I don't have the eyesight to waste on this - and so many people with worse vision problems than mine also need the internet!

I found a Chrome add-on called Legibility, which allows some adjustment of text contrast when wellied up to maximum. And I may have long since adjusted some settings in Firefox that make pages easier to read, but wow, why would Chrome deliberately make things hard to see?

[conuly]

Because fuck accessibility, that's why.

[gwydion]

It's really fucking me over too. Sigh.

[conuly]

*sighs in solidarity*

[readerjane]

Ah, that explains why Ad-Block Plus isn't working anymore. So far it hasn't been too bad: I've been able to close the two ads that appear when I first boot up my homepage, and they don't come back during a Windows session, even when I return to that page.

But Grrr.

[low_delta]

Weird. I got a message at some point, saying that by add ons were disabled. But when I opened the page to investigate, no add ons were on the list. And as far as I can tell Adblocker was always working.