Deactivation of add-ons

I find it annoying that Firefox deactivates add-ons that are a security
risk without the option for the user to reactivate them at his/her own
risk.  I feel patronized in a way that strongly reminds me of Microsoft
practice.

On one of my older computers I have chosen to stick to Windows SP1 -- I
never have major problems with viruses on this computer (I have a
firewall and an up-to-date antivirus program) and I do not want to go to
SP2 due to disk and memory limitations.  But I did move to Firefox
3.5.4. It deactivated the QuickTime Plugin 7.1.3 due to alleged security
problems. Well, I decided to install the newest QuickTime version -- but
I can't without installing SP2, which I don't want to.  I am really
tempted to go back to Firefox version 2, of which I still have the
installation program.  (But I might also have to reinstall QuickTime
7.1.3 to get the plugin activated again -- stupid.)

The next thing that happened was that on my laptop, which is at SP2 and
which I keep updated, Firefox deactivated the Skype extension for
Firefox -- which cannot be updated apparently -- at least there seems to
be no new version.  Again alleged security reasons -- in this case I
suspect that there is no real risk.  The Skype extension is not even on
the blocklist and it does not play files.  Again I would like to
override the program's decision which is too cautious, but I can't.

My wish -- allow the user to make his own decision.  Display five
warnings before you do so, but don't let the program prevent him from
*choosing* to be unwise.

Is there an add-on allowing to unblock blocked add-ons? :-)
-- 
Klaus Kassner
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