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You won’t lose any of your bookmarks or browsing history, but some of your extensions and other add-ons might not work until updates for them are made available.

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Losing extensions and/or add-ons would not be acceptable.

Why would you even do the update if you did not address extensions and add-ons?

Losing extensions and/or add-ons would not be acceptable. Why would you even do the update if you did not address extensions and add-ons?

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There are thousands of extensions.

Put another way there are thousands of extensions that are useless to me. There are thousands of extensions that I don't use and have not seen.

Mozilla (if that is what you mean by you) can't hold up a release because extensions have not been updated. Extensions are the responsibility of their authors not of Mozilla.

If you mean why would a user do an update and lose extensions

  • sometimes the update is forced on us
  • sometimes the missing extensions are trivial or can be substituted.

I find your question a bit vague. I tried to answer two interpretations of it.

If you want to find out what is compatible for what you've got there is

Is It Compatible? :: Add-ons for Firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/is-it-compatible/