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My some add-ons options do not display any text

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guiman
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From another post: "Hi, please try a Refresh but Note that this does more than uninstalling and re-installing does. Normal uninstalling does not remove some preferences which may have become corrupt. Please Refresh but do this 1st: Delete your Cookies and Cache and TEST. 

       https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/export-firefox-bookmarks-to-backup-or-transfer
       https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles 

   then

       https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings"

I have the same problem. I have a clean install of v64, and I've tried the solutions suggested above, but still not seeing the text for some add-ons' options. Some, like "trash mail" display OK, but other like "ReloadMatic" just show the checkboxes with no text.

From another post: "Hi, please try a Refresh but Note that this does more than uninstalling and re-installing does. Normal uninstalling does not remove some preferences which may have become corrupt. Please Refresh but do this 1st: Delete your Cookies and Cache and TEST. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/export-firefox-bookmarks-to-backup-or-transfer https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles then https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings" I have the same problem. I have a clean install of v64, and I've tried the solutions suggested above, but still not seeing the text for some add-ons' options. Some, like "trash mail" display OK, but other like "ReloadMatic" just show the checkboxes with no text.
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Do you see this on the entire about:preferences page or only if you click the Options/Preferences button next to an extension.

Does this still happen with all extension disabled and only one extension enabled at the time and with the default theme?

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cor-el
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Do you see this on the entire about:preferences page or only if you click the Options/Preferences button next to an extension.

Does this still happen with all extension disabled and only one extension enabled at the time and with the default theme?

guiman
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Excellent suggestion: disabled the extensions (should have thought of that. Thanks). That worked. The text now shows.

Here's the odd thing though: I enabled the add-ons one by one (restarting Firefox each time) and the text never went away. All's I can figure is that one of the add-ons was installed wrong, and disabling it/enabling it fixed the problem.