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Re:Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on... by a_imho on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @01:23PM (#36603676)
once configured, I have always had my settings honored

totally different experience, FF ESR decided to update itself just the other day and break a bunch of stuff out of the blue, because of course moz://a knows better what I need and when I need it. It is very sad people like me need to put up with this abusive behaviour because the alternatives are worse

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Re:Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on... by kemotep on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @01:33PM (#36603821)
Do you have an example? I would like to double check my own browser to see if anything has been changed without my knowledge or permission.
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Re:Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on... by a_imho on Thursday July 06, 2023 @06:03AM (#36613634)
You mean besides the forced update? Unfortunately not much I can help with, in my case I was deliberately running ESR 78.14.0 which was force updated to ESR 102.11.0 on May 26 and later 102.12.0 on June 20 (setting is obviously 'Check for updates'). It was a pretty big change first, so I naturally tried to revert back as much as I could. However for example Google Image Search is broken again, clicking it simply crashes the tab (Gah. Your tab just crashed), which could be fixed by tweaking some options in the earlier version iirc. Unless moz://a managed to break it a different way this time
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