Add-on update security checking is disabled on firefox restart
Hi,
I'm getting this warning on the firefox addon page:
Add-on update security checking is disabled. You may be compromised by updates.
If I click on activate, the message disappears. However, If I restart firefox, the message will come up again.
I also tried to set via about:config the extensions.checkUpdateSecurity to true (or reset it), but It appears again as false when I restart firefox.
Inspecting the prefs.js, I can clearly see that these 2 entries are created everytime firefox is started
user_pref("extensions.checkCompatibility", false); user_pref("extensions.checkUpdateSecurity", false);
How could I fix it?
Thank you, Best regards
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I also tried with a Firefox Refresh and a reinstall without success.
Need screenshot of the actual error message and what is shows. And sounds like the addon is a legacy app by default is disabled by firefox.
You can check if you have a user.js file in the profile folder to initialize prefs each time Firefox starts. The user.js file will only be present if you or other software has created this file and normally won't be present.
You can check its content with a text editor (right-click: "Open with"; do not double-click). The user.js file is read each time Firefox is started and initializes preferences to the value specified in this file, so preferences set via user.js can only be changed temporarily for the current session.
You can delete the user.js file if you didn't create this file yourself.
See also:
Hi,
I have attached a screenshot of the message. Sorry, It is in Spanish. but I think the equivalent in English is: "Add-on update security checking is disabled. You may be compromised by updates."
Also, there is no user.js file on the profile folder.
Thank you!
