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Speed Dial [FVD]

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todus
todus
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You turned off Speed Dial FVD without a word of warning !!!! Up to 3 days to make backups! I have lost dozens of links to websites important to me.

This is disgusting. This is not the first time this has happened. I support you financially and you are giving me a crap in my life.

I am TOTALLY disappointed in you.

You turned off Speed Dial FVD without a word of warning !!!! Up to 3 days to make backups! I have lost dozens of links to websites important to me. This is disgusting. This is not the first time this has happened. I support you financially and you are giving me a crap in my life. I am TOTALLY disappointed in you.

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Paul
Paul
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Hi

In 2020, we became aware that the developer of the FVD add-on had begun intercepting search queries that were being sent to a third-party search provider, in clear violation of the Mozilla Add-ons Policies. After a repeated violation we again explicitly told them under which circumstances this type of data collection is not acceptable. At the time, the developer disabled the feature, and we continued to host FVD Speed Dial.

Recently we have become aware that the developer has re-enabled the offending functionality, which remains in violation of AMO policy. In light of these repeated offenses, we have blocked this addon. While we regret the impact that this has had on some of our users, we believe that our commitments to user safety and the importance of user trust in Firefox and its surrounding ecosystem have obligated us to take this action, and we stand by this decision.

ConnieVH
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todus said
You turned off Speed Dial FVD without a word of warning !!!! Up to 3 days to make backups! I have lost dozens of links to websites important to me. This is disgusting. This is not the first time this has happened. I support you financially and you are giving me a crap in my life. I am TOTALLY disappointed in you.

I am too. Wow. Did it occur to Mozilla to give "the developer" AND US 24 hours or 48 hours, or SOMETHING, to fix this situation again, so we could MAYBE retin some of the links we had?? I had 12-15 tabs, each with 20+ links! The way you have "fixed" and "updated" Firefox, I might as well just use Edge. It looks and now functions the same. Wow. Big deal. I'm out.