Firefox Addons Installions Require privacy.resistFingerprinting To Be Disabled #370

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2017-12-01T10:02:59Z

furball514 commented

2017-12-01 10:02:59 +00:00

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it is worth mentioning that when privacy.resistFingerprinting setting in about:config is enabled firefox's addons page detects the wrong firefox version and prevents installation of addons like Cookie AutoDelete,Decentraleyes,uMatrix,NoScript Security Suite. Best to install all the addons before setting this setting to true.

it is worth mentioning that when `privacy.resistFingerprinting` setting in `about:config` is enabled firefox's addons page detects the wrong firefox version and prevents installation of addons like _Cookie AutoDelete,Decentraleyes,uMatrix,NoScript Security Suite_. Best to install all the addons before setting this setting to `true`.

ghost commented

2017-12-01 15:43:00 +00:00

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@beardog108 @kewde

Atavic commented

2017-12-01 18:41:00 +00:00

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firefox bug with its workaround

**firefox bug** with its [workaround](https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js/issues/289#issuecomment-347569709)

Vincevrp commented

2019-02-28 19:28:16 +00:00

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Closing unless anyone can confirm that this is still the case. I don't experience this problem.

Mikaela commented

2019-02-28 22:16:55 +00:00

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I think it was caused by privacy.resistFingerprinting sending user-agent of the latest ESR when webextensions came and when the ESR with webextensions was released it got fixed a long time ago.

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Mikaela commented

2019-03-26 09:49:11 +00:00

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Recently this has started hitting me again with Tree Style Tab. The workaround above doesn't work for me, and searching further I think this can be kept closed as it's Firefox issue.

Bug 1394448: Cannot install Addon with privacy.resistFingerprinting==true

In case anyone ends up here via search engine or something, my workaround is to append /versions to the URL and download/install the latest version compatible with Firefox ESR, which is currently 2.7.23.

Recently this has started hitting me again with [Tree Style Tab](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/). The workaround above doesn't work for me, and searching further I think this can be kept closed as it's Firefox issue. * [Bug 1394448: Cannot install Addon with privacy.resistFingerprinting==true](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1394448) In case anyone ends up here via search engine or something, my workaround is to append [`/versions` to the URL](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/versions/) and download/install the latest version compatible with Firefox ESR, which is currently 2.7.23.

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