It’s a good practice to copy your links over from time to time so you have the bulk of it handy. Every once in a while a link I need works better in another browser.
Thanks for posting this. It worked for me too.
I checked the studies box (it was unchecked before), closed and opened the browser. Nothing.
Then I went back after I read your note, rechecked the box, and it worked.
Thanks!
I’m not a fan. Google is invasive enough without my leaving more data for them. I wipe my browser as clean as I can when I leave.
Firefox does that automatically when I close it which is why I generally use that over Chrome.
Nice attempt to move the goal posts in order to continue arguing about a free service. I can quantify my internet service quite easily. It’s the amount of money I pay for it. It’s broken down on my bill. If it’s down for 6 days then I get 6 days of cost knocked off.
The fact is I pay for what I use. If my music CD is defective I get my money back. If a free music website goes down then I have no vested interest in it and cannot hold them liable for it.
And this explains why you’re completely unhinged over a free service. You expect something for nothing and resort to name calling instead of having a rational conversation.
I understand. But you still have a plan B option. download your links to a html file and then you can click on them as needed in an emergency. when doing this you would probably need to make another web broswer the default.
That’s my plan C.
To do this click on Bookmarks, Show All Bookmarks, Import and Backup, Export Bookmarks to HTML. it will default name the file “backups”.
Thanks. I have an updated copy of the html file of my bookmarks on my flash drive. I update it periodically.
It’s nice to have. But the last time my computer crashed, I started the next one over from scratch. It was oddly freeing to start from a clean slate. As you say though, it’s nice to know there’s a backup, just in case.
Who said anything negative about the open source community? People were upset at Mozilla for not doing their job and renewing the certificate. Or, at the very least, releasing a patch ahead of time that would prevent the issue. They didn’t do a code quality check. And they’d already had this happen two years ago, so they should be testing for it all the time.
It would be stupid to blame the open source community, as if they were all one monolithic entity. For example, all of the recommended alternatives are either open source now or will be soon. I’m not even sure there are any closed-source browsers left.
Only Mozilla made this mistake, though. And not for the first time. It makes sense to criticize Mozilla.
And, yes, if you were particularly inconvenienced (like you depend on the browser’s functionality for your job), to change to a different web browser. Firefox may be free, but so are the alternatives.
just think if ms wanted to it could have appealed a court decision that said it couldn’t block other web browsers from windows and probably won and wed all be using edge like it or not …
If anyone is “unhinged” in these situation, it is you. To be unhinged is to be disconnected with reality. And you are the one refusing to be rational, spreading nonsense about the idea that it’s wrong to criticize something that is free. (When, in this very thread, you are criticizing the free posts that you are reading.)
You even whine about personal attacks while choosing to engage in them. Your first post was a personal attack. You did not try for any sort of rational discussion. And you have, in fact, ignored the people who did make rational rebuttals.
There’s also just nothing rational about coming in an telling people they’re wrong to be upset about something. Yeah, it happens all the time here, but it has never resulted in people no longer being angry. It convinces no one, so why do it?
Because you just want to express some anger, like everyone else. So don’t try to act like you’re better than any of us.
At least black rabbit tried to help with the situation. You just wanted to start something.
Thanks for this. I tried it and I have my add-ons back. 
what anger? What are you talking about? Who am I angry at? My post is the exact opposite of anger. Don’t get upset over [del]spilled milk[/del] free software. That’s not anger, that’s common sense.
It’s not a major concept to grasp. It’s FREE. If you don’t like it use one of the other browsers. Believe it or not, I’ve done just that with other free software. I didn’t like it so I moved on to something else. I didn’t have a meltdown of the horror of extra ads popping up while the glitch gets fixed. Don’t click on them if you think their dangerous or switch to another browser.
Where is the OMG with this issue?
therea a debate started here ya can argue on as not to derail the thread … https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=875045
There IS something satisfying about starting a new computer from scratch. When they kill off Windows 7 I’m going to do just that. Buy a new computer and start over. I’ll copy over the bookmarks in a file and fish them out as I need them instead of the 10,000 sites I’ve linked to. They’ll still be there if I truly need them.
I am running an older version of FF (version 48) precisely because the newer versions don’t support my favourite add-ons. Now all my add ons are broken. But, I have no options for this “enable studies” thing they are talking about. It’s just not anywhere in either the privacy or security tab, and typing about:studies in the search bar returns an error that says “The address isn’t valid”. Does anyone know what I can do? This is really maddening.
Any of these fixes valid for us mobile users? All my addons are unusable on my Android phone.
Probably not. I don’t use FF on Android, but from what I read, the Studies feature is only available on the desktop version.
Studies allows Firefox to push wee bits of code to desktop users to gather data on how the user base in aggregate is using the browser. They can also use it to push ad-hoc updates without requiring an entirely new release.
I’m not familiar with the FF SDLC, but I’m guessing a new release requires extensive rounds of QA testing to ensure that something in the new build doesn’t break. So basically everyone for whom the Studies feature doesn’t work, mobile users included, is going to have to wait for Mozilla to build and test a new point release of the browser for each platform that it runs on.
you have until January for extended support for “mainstream” support win 7 is all ready dead
The fix is only for newer versions. You’ll have to upgrade.
They don’t have a fix for mobile yet. It’s only for Mac/Windows.
Thanks. I’ve been checking, and the Firefox on my Android tablet is still borked. And in case it got lost in the volume of posts, to the best of my knowledge all or at least most versions of Firefox for Android obey the “xpinstall.signatures.required” switch, accessible through “about:config”. I have it set to “false” and uBlock Origin is working again, though Firefox still warns that it can’t be verified.
I’m running uBlock, incidentally, because Adblock Plus seemed to have strange performance impacts on Firefox when initially opening sites. It works fine on my desktop, but I found uBlock far superior on the tablet.
Like I need another reason besides all of the crashes to stop using Firefox.