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regularely Firefox apparentely desinstalls and reinstalls the security-apps (ghostery, bitwarden, privacybadger etc... means i have to to re-login in each app)

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it happens +/- once a month. on starting Firefox i get a tab for and from each app wich welcomes me as a new user and asks me to open an account (wich i already have...). none of the apps recognize me as a regular user. i have to login with Bitwarden to make it function again, Privacy Badger and Ghostery ask me with each site to set my preferences and so on... it is as if Firefox is installed for the first time and everthing starts from the beginning.

it happens +/- once a month. on starting Firefox i get a tab for and from each app wich welcomes me as a new user and asks me to open an account (wich i already have...). none of the apps recognize me as a regular user. i have to login with Bitwarden to make it function again, Privacy Badger and Ghostery ask me with each site to set my preferences and so on... it is as if Firefox is installed for the first time and everthing starts from the beginning.

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Hi christian.dochy , I noticed the same thing happened recently. When I checked my extensions, I saw that there were updates to them. You can turn off automatic updates in your extensions and see if that resolves the issue.

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ok, thank you very much. i'll try that. C. Dochy.

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hello, i turn them off, but alas... the issue stays. it happenned again today and a few weeks ago. could it be that it happens because of an update of Firefox? thank you and take good care!!! CD.

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happenend again... i'm fed up.i think i'll quit Firefox and go back to Edge.