Posted on 03/18/2025 11:42:54 PM PDT by KevinB
For years I've been using Cynwoody's Posting Form Enhancer and Tree Viewer extensions in Firefox to view and post comments on FreeRepublic. They have made the use of FreeRepublic so much more enjoyable.
Unfortunately, a few days ago those extensions stopped working and Firefox now displays the following message for each of the extensions: "This extension could not be verified for use in Firefox and has been disabled."
I'm curious whether anyone is currently successfully using those extensions and, if so, what version of Firefox is being used.
I've been trying for weeks to upgrade FF manually by downloading and installing. This is a step in the right direction. I just have to find a way to enable the extension. Thanks again.
I'm not sure what to do there. did it have a way to enable and disable it before?
I searched for 'mozilla addon no way to enable or disable'
and found
All my extensions disabled with no option to re-enable
in the profile directory, it looks like
extensions DIRECTORY has copies of the addon .xpi's
extensions.json is a file that is the addon's registry
extension-settings.json is the settings of addons
If you want to try to reset the extensions registry by the method listed, backup everything and the profile directory, and see if that helps
“I’ve been trying for weeks to upgrade FF manually by downloading and installing.”
Here is something to consider with this. If Linux will not let it install it could be that FF has now included new elements that want to acquire root access. You do not want your browser to have root access. Linux may be protecting it’s own security, safety, and you from insecure FF scripts.
I like FF but they have been handing themselves too much spy access lately. I have to find something else but NoScript absolutely has to be available as an addon. I just spent two months using Brave and it took over my box. It is not just passive, it is aggressive against other browsers and options in my machine. Now it sounds like FF wants to do the same thing and control our Operating system with root access. (still testing)
That I hate even worse... So I don’t trust brave either because of this. Librewolf was good except the last time I tried it the Linux version was very resource heavy. It was burning a lot of calories when it shouldn’t have been burning nothing at all sitting at an idle. I wish someone would start from scratch with a new unique and secure core rendering engine. The preexisting rendering engines they all build on top of are compromised at their core from the get go.
All the root security problems are coming from the fact everyone is basing their browser from WebKit, Blink, and Gecko. That old baggage needs to go. Someone needs to build a new secure open source core from scratch. Safari would be nice, but it is only available for Apple systems. Be nice if Safari would make it available for windows and Linux. But you can bet MS would never allow you to use it on Windows.
I found the posting enhancer addom and another freeper updated it to work with newer firefox. I had it hosted with a link to it on my profile page but my hosting expired and I’m in between jobs so I won’t be renewing right away. I can email it to you. PM me.
Bookmark
Found a free file host service. Link good for seven days. Fr_Tools.zip — https://limewire.com/d/4f01979c-8f07-4bc2-beef-f51ebb09a45c#V7MQrtBe7S4JliBbgx5P2RRB2R6fa8kR4B1BDb3qPLM
All,
Many thanks for the replies. I downloaded the files from the hosting site Pollard linked in post 28, double-clicked the files, closed and reopened Firefox (v.136) and all is working well. My understanding from Freeper Pollard is that Freeper linMcHlp did the work to make them work again, so extra thanks to linMcHlp for that. This has been a great way to start the day!
Exactly. Don't know how I left him out.
Sorry, linMcHlp.
I never had the Tree View but installed it to see what it is since so many seem to use it.
Off topic but does anyone know how to shut off the update notification, its just an annoyance but it does pop-up frequently.
Pollard actually should get the credit for getting the extension to work with Firefox. (But, tx, anyway.)
I use it with Firefox. It works OK for me.
IMHO, users can delay some updates as long as they:
A) DO NOT click on links in e-mail messages.
B) DO NOT click on links in text messages.
C) Keep an eye on: https://www.howsmyssl.com/
Re links - copy the link, paste it into a text editor window, examine for "Does this look legit?", then paste into the URL address field of your Internet browser.
Sometimes, I paste into the Startpage.com search engine's search field, then click Enter/Return, and in the results list, choose the "Visit in Anonymous View" <- so you can view the website via the Startpage.com proxy feature.
Thanks for the link to the FRPostEnhancer for Firefox.
I thought I'd follow up on this post. I went through that process yesterday and setting that to false had no impact.
I’ve been using these scripts for several months now and have gone thru a couple of FF updates with no issues.
Thanks TLS.
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