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by maverick74 2597 days ago
WT...? Addons are already functional again!!! Just update Firefox ;)

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/05/09/what-we-do-when-thi...

About alternatives: as Ultramanoid said, there is no other decent browser. If you want privacy and respect your only choice is Firefox. Everything else is Chromium based (or as i would put it: "spyware based").

(Edit: You naturally have a few browsers based on firefox as well, such as Tor Browser, Waterfox and so on... but Firefox is the real deal ;)
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dvanwag 2597 days ago
I've updated my mobile Firefox and they still don't work. It kills me this has not been a priority for Mozilla, it shouldn't be this hard to browse the web.
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Induane 2597 days ago
If updating didn't work I would file a bug report with Mozilla. This is the first incident I've heard of around the cert debacle where updating didn't correct the issue so what you're experiencing could be a bug.

I use Firefox Focus most of the time instead of the full blown Firefox, and its so stripped down that it doesn't support addons (and so wasn't affected by the cert issue). In fact it doesn't even really support tabs. It does help me not have a trillion tabs open and focus on one thing at a time. Depending on your browser needs it's a good, albeit totally different, experience.

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maverick74 2597 days ago
ups... i missed we were talking about Firefox for android!

Still, latest version is fixed.

If you want you may try the VERY experimental version of Firefox Preview ( https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/mozilla/firefox-fenix )

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maverick74 2597 days ago
yeah... that's really weird!!! v66.0.4 fixed that (there's a 66.0.5 on windows)!

You can try to fix it from about:support, but beware that it might delete some preferences, logins and other things like that...

by the way, you also have GNU IceCat Mobile -> Firefox minus proprietary things plus security measures ( https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ )

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