Mozilla just protected their browser from unsigned addons. If you are using an unsigned addon, it will suddenly not work. There is no way around it. All addon developers will have to use the official Mozilla process for signing their work.
Now, this is a great idea. Really. I don’t want some useful addon to start making unnoticed changes to my system settings or injecting ads.
However, for the nonce, it is irritating because ABSOLUTELY NONE of the addons I use are signed. Language libraries, canvas blockers, ad blockers, Gmail denhancements … none of it.
Of course, I stumbled upon this because I started to play a YouTube video and actually saw an ad for the first time in years. I mean, WTF?
This is a huge issue, and there is no way around it aside from using nightly/dev builds of the browser where you can turn signing off using xpinstall.signatures.required in about:config. The community is a bit upset, as you can well imagine.
Please share any fixes you come across and/or decent addons you find that work. The ones I’m mostly looking for are:
CanvasBlocker
BitDefender Wallet
Ebates
Google Translator
Reverse Image Search
Search Preview
Simplify Gmail
Social Fixer
uBlock Origin
AdBlockPlus strips off almost all of the moving/wiggling/flashing/crazy colored ads… well, it removes almost all of them, but the obtrusive ones are the main reason I use it.
I also use NoScript, which means I’m a little safer if I visit (or am forcibly redirected to) a less-than-savory site, since JavaScript is what is used to do automated actions in your browser.
That was interesting. The update process uninstalled Firefox but didn’t start a reinstall. After manually reinstalling, first thing I noticed is that it wiped out my selected home page. Minor, but a glitch I hadn’t seen happen before.
I use “New Tab Homepage” to bypass the stupidity FFox forces on the home page… I want a blank, damn it!
Since the broken extension and FFox update, when I create a new tab the URL is not selected - it used to be. So I could type , and immediately start typing a URL.
No longer… or maybe I should say… not today. Add a between the old and the URL.