I'm really surprised no one here has mentioned it....

I was one of those who saw them vanish before my eyes, which sucked for me because I use a Tabs replacement, so I had no tabs.

It was a timed event, turning the clock back 1 day, restores the extensions.

In irc.mozilla.org #firefox, they are bashing dissenter and the 'alt-right'.

You see where I'm going with this?

Discuss.