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When trying to open the Add-Ons manager, it just displyas "Loading" but never shows the Add-Ons.

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When trying to open the Add-Ons manager (Tools - Add-ons), a new window or tab opens and displays a box with the word 'Loading' and the spinning progress icon. But it does not ever show the list of Add-ons.

When trying to open the Add-Ons manager (Tools - Add-ons), a new window or tab opens and displays a box with the word 'Loading' and the spinning progress icon. But it does not ever show the list of Add-ons.

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Click on Extensions, Appearance or Plugins in the left margin of the Add-ons Manager display/tab.

  • It is trying to load the "Get Add-ons" information from the web server
  • There is possibly a minor glitch in loading the "Get Add-ons" option, but it is so minor that the developers have discussed and decided that no update for that minor item will be done, at this time
  • If you want new add-ons, go to the following link and use the search box on the page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/


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Does not relate to your question, but...

You have multiple old Java Console extensions that Java did not clean-up during updates (Add-ons > Extensions>. You can manually remove them, if you do not do Java development work:



Not related to your question, but...

You need to update some plug-ins: