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Martux
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 Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2015 5:21 am Post subject: Firefox-bin-43.x dual OS problem |
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Hello!
I am using firefox-bin and having it set up to share its profile folder with windows7.
This worked flawless for years, but since version 43 (also 43.01, 43.02 on windows), I have a very annoying problem:
If I reboot from Windows to Linux or vice versa, all addons are deactivated at startup.
This might be somehow related to the newly introduced deactivation of unsigned addons, but I deactivated that in about:config with "xpinstall.signatures.required". Firefox support forum ignores my problem, do you guys have any idea?
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In a few short weeks, Firefox 45 is going to make this problem go away forever... by dropping support for Mozilla extensions entirely and making you use Chromium ones instead. Have fun with that!
(If you want a stable browser, avoid the ~arch versions like the plague. Same goes for Chromium.) |
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I found out exactly nothing as the Firefox support forum is of no use. This leaves me scratching my head, no information, nowhere. I guess they have added some kind of verification mechanism for plugins, that just break dual booting scenarios. All the multi-OS guides I found are from the stone ages anyways. until now I cannot say I was unhappy with Firefox at all. Being a long time Opera 12 user I had to make the switch at one point and never really looked back. I seriously don't like chrome/chromium and would love to see vivaldi finally getting that email-client embedded.
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| Ant P. wrote: | In a few short weeks, Firefox 45 is going to make this problem go away forever... by dropping support for Mozilla extensions entirely and making you use Chromium ones instead. Have fun with that!
(If you want a stable browser, avoid the ~arch versions like the plague. Same goes for Chromium.) |
Seriously ?
Who in the right mind would neuter their advanced addon-system in the first place ?
Chromium's bookmark management sucks, Firefox' addon-system will suck like Chromium's (non-effective adblocking, video and other download helpers not working effectively anymore ?)
I guess nowadays: less work >> superiority 
Well, that's a bright future 
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| I don't know about the adblocking part; uBlock Origin and uMatrix work identically in both browsers already. |
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There's a bug report about it. Unfortunately, nobody seems to care.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433196
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