Well, I have 23 addons.  Many of them help to put FF back like it was before Mozilla screwed the pooch. Without them, being online would really, really suck.

There is a way to split a thread and start a new post but I can't find a way to merge posts into another thread.  I suggest you repost your comments in a more appropriate place and then delete the posts in this thread.  I can delete them if you are unable to do so but I will need the exact post #s.  I gave up trying to follow your experiments closely long ago so really not able to sort this on my own . . .

Silence is golden.

Good morning toddler . . .

1.  Reinstall the meta package and you 'should' get everything back.

2.  Reinstall xfce without the meta package and just add the pkgs you want.

@cynwulf . . . You two are a perfect match.  Have at it.  I am not anti-fungal.  All these rantings are just irrelevant (to me).

@fungus . . . I give up.  We are obviously talking past each other because our points of reference are in parallel universes.

(and you'd rather argue than listen)

At 70 degrees, I'm in a hoodie and down vest. 

Well, I don't compost but what I've had to deal with over the years exceeds what I put out hands down. 

Not a bit.  I am a scrounger sometimes by the side of the road etc.  I recycle and reuse others' trash in creative ways.

LOL.  After a sweaty day in 100 degree heat, I often strip on the front porch.  But there's not much traffic on the road and I can hear it coming. 

In the end none of 'this' matters a whit.  All that matters is the quality of our thoughts, speech and actions and most importantly, the generating force behind them..

That's where we part ways. 

LOL!  I would probably echo that sentiment if I was a part of it.  I decided long ago that I'd rather be dead than suffer the indignity so I'm not a victim.  I'm just an observer looking on with horror. 

I just planted a fall garden (possible here) and revel in the wild nature surrounding (which is rapidly shrinking - more refugee critters arrive daily).  And local activism is still working here.  We tied Alcoa's stripmine and water grab up in knots for years and now the smelter is shut down.  Did the same to an airport developer for 5 years ongoing - never broke ground.  Last year it took only 3 months of dealing with us for a sludger to withdraw the application that would surely have resulted in the pollution of a major aquifer outcropping and Colorado river floodplain.  I'm getting too old for this . . .

I had that figured out long before then . . .

Mother nature is fighting back but no one is listening.

We are not braindead clones.