I am using Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon. I am trying to install uBlock Origin addons in Firefox, but:
I have a latest version of Firefox:
Why is this happening? Please help me with this issue. Thanks.
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Which other addons do you have installed? Does your Firefox send a different version in its User-Agent string? You can check on ifconfig.me. – Wieland Nov 4 '17 at 9:45
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Sorry for the late reply. I tried your advice, and the User-Agent string is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0. Why is it that it is version 50.0 not 56.0? – selarcrum Nov 6 '17 at 0:42
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I already installed Privacy Badger (this is from EFF.org). The error occurred when I am trying to install the following: uBlock Origin, Cookie AutoDelete, and Decentraleyes, and probably other addons from Mozilla. – selarcrum Nov 6 '17 at 0:57
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I guess I found the solution: I renamed the prefs.js under the default profile in ~/.mozilla/firefox/yourdefaultprofile/ to something prefs.jsOLD while Firefox is closed. Then I re-opened Firefox, checked the User-Agent string using the website provided by @Wieland. The result now is: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0.
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Had the same issue on Windows. The file location for prefs.json was in
C:\Users\*\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*.default-*. Be warned that renaming the prefs.js will reset all your Firefox preferences to default. – DuCorey Nov 13 '17 at 22:11
Maybe you have fingerprinting disabled in Firefox Config.
Type in the addressbar
about:config
and then search for
privacy.resistFingerprinting
if its true, Firefox sends the wrong info.
Switch it to falseand it will working again.
