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.
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?
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.
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.
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I just saw that! I thought it was me. What happened?
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Well, if they fix it, that's better than permanent unannounced deprecation. Thanks.
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Explanation https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bkhtv8/heres_whats_going_on_with_your_addons_being/
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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... :(
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Likewise, but also my compass menu. I love my compass menu.
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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?
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But Grrr.
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