# Firefox Quantum: my favorite extensions are gone :(
**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/firefox-quantum-my-favorite-extensions-are-gone/2643
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**Created:** [November 15, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/firefox-quantum-my-favorite-extensions-are-gone/2643 "2017-11-15T00:46:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/firefox-quantum-my-favorite-extensions-are-gone/2643/1 "2017-11-15T00:46:17Z")
I just upgraded to Firefox 57 Quantum. None of my favourite extensions are compatible or will be. I am really unhappy, as it makes it impossible for me to use my workflow on FF.
Btw, my two best faves are ProfileSwitcher and MakeLink.
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### Author:  [@docslotnick](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/docslotnick)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/firefox-quantum-my-favorite-extensions-are-gone/2643/2 "2017-11-15T02:23:26Z")
@Michel Don’t tell me Apple took over the upgrade process for Fire Fox 😉
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### Author:  [@bkh](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/bkh)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2017, 2:00am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/firefox-quantum-my-favorite-extensions-are-gone/2643/3 "2017-11-16T02:00:53Z")
A work-around for a few months is to switch over to the Firefox Extended Support Release release, which still has the pre-quantum machinery [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all/](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all/)
Beyond that, the choices seemingly are to cave in and lose the add-ons you currently use, or to switch over to one of the pre-quantum firefox forks that will continue to support the old-style add-ons, for example PaleMoon [https://www.palemoon.org/](https://www.palemoon.org/) or SeaMonkey [https://www.seamonkey-project.org/](https://www.seamonkey-project.org/)
I haven’t updated to v57 yet (waiting for the compatible NoScript release) but I will try it and see how it goes. I do lament their policy decision that add-ons should only be able to modify the contents of a web page, not the behavior of the browser itself. They justify this restriction as a prerequisite for significantly improved security and performance. I’m thinking they have broken the main reason we chose Firefox over alternative browsers.
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2017, 5:27am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/firefox-quantum-my-favorite-extensions-are-gone/2643/4 "2017-11-16T05:27:09Z")
> [@bkh](#):
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> I’m thinking they have broken the main reason we chose Firefox over alternative browsers.
I totally agree with you. I was a very early Firefox adopter: I believed (and believe) in opensource as an ideology. I don’t feel good about becoming an exclusive Chrome user ☹
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### Author:  [@Boerenkool](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Boerenkool)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/firefox-quantum-my-favorite-extensions-are-gone/2643/5 "2017-11-16T18:31:00Z")
I like the upgrade so far because Firefox seems to need a lot less memory than before. I am one of those people who have a habit of using way too many tabs simultaneously, which takes a lot of memory and in the end causes Firefox to stop responding. Usually when I looked at the memory usage in task manager, Firefox would be at 1200-1900 MB. For the sake of testing memory usage, I’ve just opened 41 tabs and it seems to hover between 220 and 295 MB. I think that’s a major improvement 😄
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### Author:  [@Chris](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Chris)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/firefox-quantum-my-favorite-extensions-are-gone/2643/6 "2017-11-16T21:58:18Z")
@Michel you could always go with one of the Chromium (opensource) forks that respects your privacy such as Iridium Browser.