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Re:Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons by rasmussondk on Monday May 06, 2019 @04:24AM (#19837686)
Our extension sets https://www.givero.com as the default search engine. After the extension got disabled and re-enabled, searches now default to Google.

So this fix is not complete.

Our efforts in getting Firefox users to install our extension has been in vain. "Luckily" we didn't have many users yet but imagine the amount of money this will cost bigger search engines like DDG, Qwant, etc.

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Re:Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons by TeMPOraL on Monday May 06, 2019 @07:00AM (#19838293)
> but imagine the amount of money this will cost bigger search engines like DDG, Qwant, etc.

People use extensions to change the default search engine in their browsers? I honestly thought only malware does that; regular people use the Settings menu.

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Re:Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons by hvis on Monday May 06, 2019 @05:14AM (#19837885)
Can't you do the switch on the next extension update, for instance?
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