Add-ons deleted without even asking
Hello,
Last week, when I started Firefox, it suddenly ran the Add-on Compatibility Check. After that, the interface was very different and I discovered that at least four of my add-ons had disappeared. They had not been disabled, as you would expect, but they had vanished from the hard drive. I wonder why the compatibility messes with my hard disk instead of only changing the configuration of Firefox by disabling the add-ons or removing them from the list with installed add-ons. Doing this with asking my permission is also not very polite.
Note that I use (at my own risk) an older version of Firefox because I dislike the constant changes in the program. Therefore I am sure that the add-ons (like Tab Mix Plus, Status 4ever and an adblocker) were in fact compatible with my version of Firefox. They worked very well before they were shovelled away. So it seems that the Compatibility Check removed them because they are not compatible with the newest Firefox version instead of checking them with the real version I have installed.
Has any-one had the same experience?
Best regards,
Bram
Modificado por bramreem a
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Hi Bram, your browser identified itself as Firefox 28 on Windows XP. How close is that to reality?
It's hard enough to remember Firefox 52. I doubt any support volunteers remember how compatibility checking worked in Firefox 28!
FYI, the last version of Firefox for Windows XP is Firefox 52 Extended Support Release (ESR):