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How to stop annoying "will no longer be hosted" uninstall alert on startup?

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This is a general question on TB behavior when a dev moves (or removes?) an extension from the normal addons.thunderbird.net repo to a different webspace, but immediately concerns a specific extension, ThunderbirdHTMLedit.

The author recently moved the official download location (to www.betterbird.eu/addons), and whether triggered by that action or some embedded code, an ultra-annoying popup now appears on each and every TB startup:

"Dear users, ThunderHTMLedit will no longer be hosted at addons.thunderbird.net. Please head to www.betterbird.eu/addons/ to install the new version. The extension “ThunderHTMLedit” is requesting to be uninstalled. What would you like to do?"

The only two options are "Keep installed" and "Uninstall." There is no checkbox for "Don't ask again," "Remember this decision," or "Never show this message again as long as humans walk the earth."

So is there a way to stop such alerts that won't break other things?

This is a general question on TB behavior when a dev moves (or removes?) an extension from the normal addons.thunderbird.net repo to a different webspace, but immediately concerns a specific extension, ThunderbirdHTMLedit. The author recently moved the official download location (to www.betterbird.eu/addons), and whether triggered by that action or some embedded code, an ultra-annoying popup now appears on each and every TB startup: "Dear users, ThunderHTMLedit will no longer be hosted at addons.thunderbird.net. Please head to www.betterbird.eu/addons/ to install the new version. The extension “ThunderHTMLedit” is requesting to be uninstalled. What would you like to do?" The only two options are "Keep installed" and "Uninstall." There is no checkbox for "Don't ask again," "Remember this decision," or "Never show this message again as long as humans walk the earth." So is there a way to stop such alerts that won't break other things?

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Alright, a big NM on this. After posting I took the extension apart, believing it was still functional and possibly containing the code triggering the problem.

In reality, the last update removed the working extension and replaced it with one whose only function is to display the nag alert.

So for now, the fix is to uninstall. (Now looking for a way to restore that usability since I don't trust third-party download sites.)

To safeguard against such events, TB users might backup their extensions so that they can be restored, then turn off auto-updates.

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(Apologies, that should be "ThunderHTMLedit.")

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Wubrane rozrisanje

Alright, a big NM on this. After posting I took the extension apart, believing it was still functional and possibly containing the code triggering the problem.

In reality, the last update removed the working extension and replaced it with one whose only function is to display the nag alert.

So for now, the fix is to uninstall. (Now looking for a way to restore that usability since I don't trust third-party download sites.)

To safeguard against such events, TB users might backup their extensions so that they can be restored, then turn off auto-updates.

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See https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/html-source-editor/