[PLUG] Firefox add-ons dropped, can't re-install

[King Beowulf]

On 5/6/19 7:22 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 5/6/19 12:12 AM, King Beowulf wrote:
>> On 5/5/19 2:31 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>>> On Sun, 5 May 2019, King Beowulf wrote:
>>>
>>>> ... you can get the add-ons/extensions back via
>>>> about:config
>>>> search for 'xpinstall.signatures.required'
>>>> right-click and toggle to "False"
>>>>
>>>> Your add-ons will now be re-enabled with a warning message.
>>> Ed,
>>>
>>> Thank you very much. That toggle restored the add-ons that disappeared.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Rich
>>
> 
> It worked for 66.0.3 (64-bit) on three versions of Ubuntu (18.04). But
> it didn't work for my wife's machine (Win 7). Should it have?
> 

Dick

Yes it should have worked.  There might be another setting blocking that
one.  The Mozilla article with above about:config was OS agnostic.

-Ed


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