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> Anyway, dear users of my Google search link fix extension. If you happen to use Google Chrome, I sincerely recommend switching to Mozilla Firefox. No, not only because of this simple extension of course. But Addons.Mozilla.Org policies happen to be enforced in a transparent way, and appealing is always possible. Mozilla also has a good track record of keeping out malicious extensions, something that cannot be said about Chrome Web Store (a recent example).

It's interesting to hear this, when Firefox Mobile keeps uninstalling uMatrix and uBlock Origin, while these keep running on Chrome without issue.

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How can you say extensions run on Chrome without issue in comparison to mobile Firefox, when mobile chrome has no extensions?

What kind of twisted logic is this? uBlock can't run without issue on mobile Chrome, since there's no uBlock for mobile Chrome. Even super locked-down mobile Safari has ad blockers available.

I had UBO disappear once or twice from my desktop Firefox, but that appeared to be a bug of some kind. Never vanished from my mobile version, and AFAIK it's never been removed from Mozilla's add-ons store.

Mozilla also doesn't stand to gain anything by forcing you to view ads. Google does. That's why Firefox Mobile has historically been the mobile browser that lets you install add-ons and ablockers, while Chrome for Android has not.

They certainly don't keep running on the mobile version of Chrome.

Have you filed a bug report with Mozilla? They're obviously not intentionally getting rid of uMatrix and uBlock.

Are you saying that Firefox mobile has uninstalled add-ons from your browser multiple times?

I've been running Nightly mobile for more than a year and never had that happen. It sounds like a very strange bug, maybe it had something to do with Sync?

> Are you saying that Firefox mobile has uninstalled add-ons from your browser multiple times?

Yes. Checked while posting this, and they're uninstalled again.

Try wiping Firefox's app data. Sounds like a corrupt profile to me.

I've had uBlock disappear from the main menu in mobile Firefox, but it was still accessible from the add-ons screen. I can get uBlock to reappear in the menu by force quitting Firefox.

It also happens to me. I assumed it's some bug or internal crash. However it seems to keep working even if it doesn't appear in the menu. It's just impossible to pick elements to hide if it's not in the menu.

> when Firefox Mobile keeps uninstalling [...] uBlock Origin

What? I'm using it without issue of any kind for several years...

On nightly, never had ublock or umatrix uninstalled.

Same for me on stable (desktop and mobile).

Especially interesting with the whole Looking Glass ordeal.

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