WWOT: Firefox add-ons lost

Tom Pauncz wrote on 11/17/2014, 9:47 AM

Thought I'd ask here, just in case, while I am continuing to research the issue.

Shutdown last night, no system updates recently, and this morning on launching Firefox (33.1) noticed a large bunch of my carefully selected add-ons were no longer active or listed.

Anyone seen this?? Any idea how to get them back short of re-installing the missing ones?

TIA,
Tom

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larry-peter wrote on 11/17/2014, 10:43 AM

I just noticed that Firefox is installing 33.1 update right now on my machine. When I restart, I'll see what my add-ons look like. Every now and then a major update will be incompatible with a lot of add-ons and we'll have to wait for the developers to catch up.

Tom Pauncz wrote on 11/17/2014, 10:47 AM

Thanks, but I had been using 33.1 for a while now with no add-ons being found incompatible.

I did find some mention that like it is Avast 2015 is the culprit, but have not been able to either verify or resolve. I updated to Avast 2015 on the 12th.

Will try a restore point I created two days ago and see how that goes.
Tom

larry-peter wrote on 11/17/2014, 10:55 AM

Same here, but an update to 33.1 was installing when I checked the "about Firefox" tab. I let it complete, restarted and all my add-ons are still active on all my machines so it may be Avast that is the issue. Good luck.

Julius_ wrote on 11/17/2014, 12:52 PM

Since we are way off topic....I also use Firefox, but lately I've been trying Pale Moon (x64)...I think it's the same company (and features)..it might be a tad quicker. So far I'm very happy with PaleMoon and switching for my default browser.

Tom Pauncz wrote on 11/17/2014, 1:31 PM

Update: restores did not fix issue. Had to re-install each of the missing add-ons.
Tom

Kit wrote on 11/17/2014, 7:45 PM

I've been using Pale Moon for over a year. The code is based on Firefox but there are differences. I much prefer it to Firefox, not least because of Mozilla's update cycle. Version 25 of Pale Moon saw major changes but with 25.1 the extensions I rely on seem to be working.

ushere wrote on 11/17/2014, 9:11 PM

i went from ff to chrome when they changed the interface. frankly, other than a few glitches and bugbears, i'm happy enough.

i did look at pale moon, and am tempted to try it, but at the end of the day, a browser is really just a browser....