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Adblock Plus disabling itself on Firefox 14

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Ducatiman
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I have installed Adblock Plus 2.1.1 on Firefox 14.0.1. It works fine for a day or three and then the Adblock Plus icon disappears from the bottom left of my screen and adds reappear. When I look at my Add-ons it would appear that Adblock Plus is still enabled as the "Disable" button is still available. However, if I actually disable and then immediately enable it again all is fine once more for the next day or three. Does anyone know why this is happening? Thanks

I have installed Adblock Plus 2.1.1 on Firefox 14.0.1. It works fine for a day or three and then the Adblock Plus icon disappears from the bottom left of my screen and adds reappear. When I look at my Add-ons it would appear that Adblock Plus is still enabled as the "Disable" button is still available. However, if I actually disable and then immediately enable it again all is fine once more for the next day or three. Does anyone know why this is happening? Thanks

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dumdidadida
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Hi,

You can try to Reset toolbars and controls: and Make Changes and Restart in the Safe Mode start screen. This would hopefully solve the problem of the missing icon.

ackurxs
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Its strange, the exact same thing is happening to me. Its not just Adblock but instantfox as well. If you disable then re-enable the addons they work until you close firefox.

Modified by ackurxs

cor-el
cor-el
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Which security software (firewall, anti-virus) do you have?

Some security software does have virtualization features that can cause problems by protecting and restoring files in the Firefox profile folder.

It is possible that there is a problem with the file(s) that store the extensions registry.

Delete the files extensions.* (e.g. extensions.sqlite, extensions.ini, extensions.cache) and compatibility.ini in the Firefox profile folder to reset the extensions registry.

New files will be created when required.

See "Corrupt extension files":

If you see disabled, not compatible, extensions in "Tools > Add-ons > Extensions" then click the Tools button at the left side of the Search Bar (or click the "Find Updates" button in older Firefox versions) to check if there is a compatibility update available.

You may have to delete the addons.sqlite file as well.