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To: backpacker_c
Thanks. Worked mostly. I got back all my themes and extensions except for the FR Posting enhancer. I see no way or button to enable it.

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.

21 posted on 03/19/2025 3:35:20 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection...you may achieve excellence.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
hmmm....

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

22 posted on 03/19/2025 4:15:48 AM PDT by backpacker_c
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

“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.


23 posted on 03/19/2025 4:57:39 AM PDT by Openurmind
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