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Why is Firefox deciding for me what I want on my computer in add ons

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Neilsen is monitoring various uses of the internet on my computer. They have my permission to do that. I made a big mistake. I updated Firefox. I should know better by now. You need at least six months of your updates to figure out how to make Firefox work. In other words, no, there is no new signature, and no, I do not grant you the authority to simply turn off my add-ons. Get your hands off my add-ons and leave Neilson alone!

Neilsen is monitoring various uses of the internet on my computer. They have my permission to do that. I made a big mistake. I updated Firefox. I should know better by now. You need at least six months of your updates to figure out how to make Firefox work. In other words, no, there is no new signature, and no, I do not grant you the authority to simply turn off my add-ons. Get your hands off my add-ons and leave Neilson alone!

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the-edmeister said

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-on-signing-in-firefox

Yeah, I saw all that, which is why I'm here. I do not want firefox making my decisions for me. Neilson has my consent to be on my computer. So how about if we do this. How do I go back to the last version of Firefox so I don't have babysitters sitting on my shoulders?

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Jade1956 said

Get your hands off my add-ons and leave Neilson alone!

I guess Neilson has not heard for months now that they were going to need to get their Extension signed in order to work in Firefox 43.0 and newer.

You can try toggling xpinstall.signatures.required in meantime until Neilson fixes their extension. This may work until Firefox 47 Release now as it was originally not go to work in 44.0

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You know what? I have the perfect solution. I keep forgetting this. I think that since Firefox is the hands down winner in crashes and restarts and now wants to babysit me, I should have remembered! Don't use FIrefox. Good-bye again. And I'm sure if I decide to use Firefox again, I'll be uninstalling it again. Dang memory. But someday I'll remember and I'll tell everyone I know, gads, if you want the worst internet experience of your life, sure, install it! Tell me when you uninstall. A week? A day? An hour? Surely not less than that.