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Add-ons Aren't Working For My Firefox 17.0.1

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Hello. I haven't really gotten into add-ons until today lol. I've got the most up to date Firefox, 17.0.1, on Windows Vista. I've installed an add-on for Youtube. A couple of them. But none are showing up or allowing me to do what they say. When I add the Add-Ons toolbar it is empty. I really can't figure out what's going on. It's probably something like a setting or something.

Anyone able to help me please??

Hello. I haven't really gotten into add-ons until today lol. I've got the most up to date Firefox, 17.0.1, on Windows Vista. I've installed an add-on for Youtube. A couple of them. But none are showing up or allowing me to do what they say. When I add the Add-Ons toolbar it is empty. I really can't figure out what's going on. It's probably something like a setting or something. Anyone able to help me please??

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Which add-ons did you install?

Some have an Options button on the about:addons page.
Not all extensions add a toolbar button automatically, so you may need to check that in the toolbar palette.

  • View > Toolbars > Customize
  • Firefox > Options > Toolbar Layout

There are also extension that add items to the right-click context menu or the Tools menu, so you can check that out as well.

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YouTube to MP3 Converter and YouTube to MP3 PRO

Oh ok. I checked there. No extensions for anything other than the normal things like Print, Download etc.

Even when I go to a YouTube video there just doesn't seem to be any options there to click on to do any downloading.

Modified by kizza83

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Extensions may get broken in case YouTube changes the page code or reconfigures their servers.

Maybe try this extension:

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Thank you.

I tried it, but it requires payment to do certain things like downloading/converting as an mp3 320kbps.

I need one that has more freedom when it says it's 'free' and let's me choose what I want it to download as.

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There are a lot of ways to convert videos to mp3.

Convert audio and video to MP3:

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With only one add-on working, it's just not good enough.

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I am having the same problem, but I feel that I can expand on the problem a bit. I've had Firefox for years now, never with a problem, but not a single one of my add-ons are working in 17.01. While two of my apps are in fact disabled because they are not compatible with 17.0.1, the majority of the add-ons in question are enabled when I check under the add-on tab. I have reason to believe that it is Firefox that is giving me trouble and not a case of broken apps, because every app that works for both Internet explorer and Firefox is currently working on Internet explorer. As an aside, while there are some apps that I have which do not automatically add an icon to the toolbar, most of them added an icon automatically and icons appeared for them before the upgrade.