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Firefox starts with ghostery disabled

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blaydon
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When starting firefox despite having Ghostery enabled in my addons list it seems to start disabled.

To get it to function I have to go into addons and disable and re-enable it.

Is there some way to get it to work properly?

When starting firefox despite having Ghostery enabled in my addons list it seems to start disabled. To get it to function I have to go into addons and disable and re-enable it. Is there some way to get it to work properly?

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guigs
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Is it possible to check to see if its a combination of two addons/plugins by disabling everything else but Ghostery?

Otherwise I would recommend also contacting the developer of the add on with their support contact on the add on page.

cor-el
cor-el
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It is possible that there is a problem with the file(s) that store the extensions registry.

Delete the extensions.* files (e.g. extensions.json, extensions.sqlite, extensions.ini) and compatibility.ini in the Firefox profile folder to reset the extensions registry.

New files will be created when required.

See "Corrupt extension files":

If you see disabled or not compatible extensions in "Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions" then click the Tools button at the left end of the Search bar to check if there is a compatibility update available.

If this hasn't helped then also delete possible addons.json and addons.sqlite files.