Dissenter BANNED From Firefox browser...

[GraceG]

Woke up this morning to find out that Firefox just disabled Dissenter along with a few other web-add-ons in my browser...

for "Security" reasons...

Isn't it always the same... they Sacrifice OUR RIGHT to free speech using the excuse of an Security Update...

[DesScorp]

Why use a browser made by people that hate your guts? Mozilla's rabid SJW's chased off Brendan Eich, the guy that invented the tech that Firefox is built around (Javascript). You've got other options for both Windows and Mac and even Linux. Brave is a good browser built by Eich. Opera is a good commercial browser that uses Google's engine from Chrome (so you don't have to support them either).

Best of all, Microsoft's new version of Edge that's in testing right now casts aside it's own EdgeHTML engine and will use Google's engine from now on, but without Google's claws in it. That means Google's major competitor is now using it's own browser code to take market share away from Chrome. And after it's released for Windows 10, a version is coming that will work all the way back to Windows 7.

[rktman]

Looks like you are not alone. ‘Ouderkirk’ seems to also be having an issue with FF this morning. What’s up with that?

[JonPreston]

oops. Yes, thank you!

[rktman]

Not IE? LOL!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

https://www.ghacks.net/2019/05/04/your-firefox-extensions-are-all-disabled-thats-a-bug/

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Thanks, catmom. I saw it couldn’t figure it out and just when I realized what was meant, I saw your post.

[hsmomx3]

What is studies?

[LostInBayport]

Go to Options, choose Privacy & Security on the left, and scroll down to Data Collection and Use. There, check “allow Firefox to send technical data” and the box below it (studies) will then allow you to check it.

I did that, closed the browser and restarted, and my UMatrix and anti-virus icons reappeared.

[trebb]

Yeah - they turned off 3 of my extensions - gonna look for another browser...

[hsmomx3]

Thank you so much.

I did as you instructed and it worked.

[Spacetrucker]

Use DuckDuckGo ... end of problem.

[Pollard]

https://www.brave.com
https://www.palemoon.org
https://vivaldi.com/

uBlock Origin is a good ad blocker and seems unaffected
Yes Script is a good javascript blocker for those auto-play videos and popups. It’s default state if Off and you turn it On per site.

[LostInBayport]

You are welcome!

[freeandfreezing]

It isn't censorship, just a stupid programming blunder by Mozilla engineers. They let a code signing certificate expire that the Firefox extension management code relies on.

That the blunder happened shows great weakness in their design approach. They trashed all their users at once, which is one of the best ways possible to kill off a software product.

There are some workarounds, and Mozilla is working to fix the problem. See this bug tracking thread for more information.

[dljordan]

Isn’t Dissenter the group that turned over their user comments to reporters?

[Catmom]

No prob.

[Old Student]

DuckDuckGo isn’t a browser. It’s a search engine. I really like it, and use it, but it isn’t gonna solve this problem unless you use is correctly, to search. Like I did. This isi what I got:

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox/

[Spacetrucker]

Regardless, I’d rather stick with something that’s limited to being a search engine than invest time in trying to defeat the information harvesting that goes on with the vast majority of “browsers”. BRAVE is decent in that regard but still suffers with some of the same issues that GOOGLE has.

[Maigrey]

Not for me. Still f* broken. So I'm using Brave and it's running like a ferrari compared to a Pinto that Firefox has turned into. I think I might stick with Brave from now on.

Firefox can toss off.

[YogicCowboy]

As soon as I learned of Dissenter, I knew this would be the counter-attack.

Mozilla did it to Brendan Eich, their guru. My question is, does Brave allow Dissenter?

I can think of no other browser that would host Dissenter !ong term than Eich’s.

(I will investigate that myself when I have time. I am just speculating right now.)