upgraded a couple of computers to mint 19.1 and was getting connection errors trying to add addons to firefox. was a head scratcher until I read an article about the problems earlier. guess I will try again tomorrow. in the meantime, chrome extensions was working 
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Got issues with firefox add-ons?
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A few hours ago I turned on the machine and started FF.
Only to be greeted with this add-on nonsense.
So here I am surfing with no ad blocker.....pita.
Hope they get it fixed soon as my modem is getting a workout with all the ads.
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You can get one with most of current ad sites blocked and swap it in as your new hosts file. It's what I use.
https://pgl.yoyo.org/as/#how
You can copy and paste these into your hosts file.
https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/blob/master/data/StevenBlack/hosts
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for windows 10 users.
https://windows10top.com/hosts-file-editor-64bit-32bit-latest-version-free-download/
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Update to the latest version of FF?
Did anyone at moz stop and think there might be a reason why some folks are running an older version of FF?
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Folk are free to run older versions but some feel entitled that companies should keep paying for security certificates.
The days are gone when you could just install and run apps.
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Whatever moz did they trashed some add-ons.
Their answer was to install the newest version of FF.
Then some of your old add-ons won't work because of the new version.
So your stuck looking for new add-ons or apps to fix things.
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what's the current version of FF? I have my update set to not offer me newer versions.
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That came out May 5, 2019! And Ublock Origin, Ghostery keep working.
I'm seeing folk get more upset about add ons than a Starbucks coffee cup on Game Of Thrones.
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It is only one year old, released May 9, 2018
Seems a lot of my add-ons are also disabled,but the one that concerns me is the Classic Theme Restore. So long as I leave that for now, even disabled, the look I spent time to make FF look the way I wanted, remains. I just noticed my "night light" addon is gone too. I'm with others, finagle with security needs, but leave the add-ons alone.
April my Linux mint 17.3 support ended, so probably upgrade to version 19.2 and do the FF upgrade at the same time in a couple months. I think I can walk into 18, then into 19 without doing it all again from scratch, but not sure since init was replaced by systemd in version 19.
Post was last edited on May 6, 2019 12:31 PM PDT
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What Rob said about the security certs.
To re-enable your add-ons, open about:config in a browser tab, check the "OK, I'll be careful", then in search put "xpinstall". You will find "xpinstall.signatures.required" and set that to false.
Worked for me. Also, if you had autoplay of media stopped in earlier editions using media.autoplay.enabled set to false in about:config, you will hear media autoplay again unless you go into preferences now.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay#w_always-allow-or-disallow-media-autoplay
Post was last edited on May 7, 2019 6:24 PM PDT
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Somewhat famous series. Here's the CBS News on that.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2019/05/07/game-of-thrones-coffee-cup-removed-hbo/
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