# Bitly plugin disappeared **URL:** \ **Category:** addons.mozilla.org\ **Created:** [May 20, 2021, 9:39am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/bitly-plugin-disappeared/80454 "2021-05-20T09:39:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@fritz](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/fritz)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 9:39am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/bitly-plugin-disappeared/80454/1 "2021-05-20T09:39:08Z")
Since years I use the bitly (bit.ly) plugin (addon) with the small red b named “Bitly | Powerful Short Links”. It allows to customize bitly links, when with an account at bitly. Works fine. After installing a new PC this plugin was replaced by a plugin (symbol: a used letter envelope) giving an unchangeable very long “shortlink”. Dumb. How can I get the good old bitly-addon? ---
**Author:** ![jscher2000](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/jscher2000/32/28202_2.png) [@jscher2000](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/jscher2000)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 1:40am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/bitly-plugin-disappeared/80454/2 "2021-05-21T01:40:59Z")
Hmm, I wonder why the official Bit.ly extension is no longer on the Add-ons site? The [last capture by the Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org/web/20201124233704/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bitly-shorten/) was on Nov. 24, 2020 (version 3.0.7). Maybe contact them and see what happened? ---
**Author:** ![fritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@fritz](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/fritz)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 4:26pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/bitly-plugin-disappeared/80454/3 "2021-05-21T16:26:32Z")
Thank you, jscher, good idea. But unfortunately: “Hrm. The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL.”, nor in earlier snapshots. Fritz ---
**Author:** ![jscher2000](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/jscher2000/32/28202_2.png) [@jscher2000](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/jscher2000)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/bitly-plugin-disappeared/80454/4 "2021-05-21T22:45:33Z")
My link didn’t work? Or the links in that page didn’t work (that’s common). I meant to contact Bit.ly directly, for example, through their website. ---
**Author:** ![fritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@fritz](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/fritz)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 5:27pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/bitly-plugin-disappeared/80454/5 "2021-05-22T17:27:46Z")
Internet Archive had not pulled the content of the link, in none of the copies. Tough luck. I then compared my old Firefox with the plugin I want – with the Firefox on my “new” PC: The old one was under Program Files (x86), the new one under Programs (both are 64 bit versions). The old, good one had a subfolder “plugins”, the new one was at Programs straigt, not x86, and had no plugins folder, but de facto a numer of plugis. I then copied the old good plugins foler (with some 11 cryptic files, mostly dlls, one .DEU, one .FRA, one .xpt, QuickTimePlugin.dass) to the new computer’s Firefox program folder, to no avail. (Gone are the happy times of Dos). Saluti! Fritz Jörn mobil +49 171 3322017 - Friedrichstr. 29, D-53111 Bonn, +49 228 211035 - Siebenfahr, Sarntal, Südtirol +39 0471 623168 [Fritz@Joern.De](mailto:Fritz@Joern.De) [www.Joern.De](http://www.Joern.De) ---
**Author:** ![jscher2000](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/jscher2000/32/28202_2.png) [@jscher2000](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/jscher2000)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 8:04pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/bitly-plugin-disappeared/80454/6 "2021-05-22T20:04:28Z")
It’s not a plugin. Extensions are stored under [profile.folder]\extensions ---
**Author:** ![ssardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@ssardina](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/ssardina)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 7:24am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/bitly-plugin-disappeared/80454/8 "2021-08-04T07:24:53Z")
Very strange indeed, same thing happened to me in a Linux install. I managed to recover a backup I had in a hard drive of the `xpi` file Fritz, I can give it to you but I guess it wont work as I am running on Linux! ---
**Author:** ![fritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@fritz](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/fritz)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 2:29pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/bitly-plugin-disappeared/80454/9 "2021-08-04T14:29:51Z")
Thank you, that’s nice, Sebastian. But 1. do I have my old laptop with the plugin installed since ages and 2. have I found a way on my “new” PC to create a bit-ly address nearly as easily. So it’s not really important. Best wishes with your Linux! Fritz Fritz Jörn mobil +49 171 3322017 D-53111 Bonn, Friedrichstr.29 +49 228 211035 Siebenfahr, Sarntal, Südtirol +39 0471 623168 [Fritz@Joern.De](mailto:Fritz@Joern.De) [www.Joern.De](http://www.Joern.De) ---
**Author:** ![ssardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@ssardina](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/ssardina)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/bitly-plugin-disappeared/80454/10 "2021-08-04T21:17:19Z")
Excellent Fritz, good you were able to do it. My plugin worked well by just copying the xpi file, but I wonder why it is not there. Bitly still have the link to it in their system. Now, may I know what is the new way you found to create links? Can you still customize the link as you can do with the extension? Thanks and all the best for you too!