Updates should (optionally) be blocked if key addons are not yet compatible

Question

Example: I depend on Roboform to maintain several hundred unique secure passwords and other user credentials. Updates to firefox frequently break the addon. I should be able to say no thankyou to any update until the addons have caught up.
At the moment, that requires an uninstall of firefox and reinstallation of the old version.
a) is there a better workaround?
b) when is the (delay until addon compatible) option going to be made available?

Answer 1

nobody is addressing the actual issue I am raising.
I'm fully aware of how the update process works - including third party addons
The design flaw I'm addressing is the Firefox update procedure itself. Telling us that an addon is incompatible AFTER the update is as useful as a chocolate teapot.
We need to know BEFORE THE FIREFOX UPDATE PROCEEDS whether or not key addons (of our choice) are already compatible. If they are not, then we should simply have the option of delaying the update until the addons have caught up.
To achieve this, we need an additional option in the Addon manager which says something like "Delay Firefox Update (and warn user) if Addon is incompatible with update".
We could then mark the relevant key addons and be assured that, come the next firefox update, it would check the compatibility status of those marked addons before proceeding with the update. If if found any not yet ready, it would warn the user that the update could not be carried out without disabling the addon (and give the user an option to proceed regardless, if, for instance, the user decides the benefits of updating firefox - eg to fix a major security flaw - outweigh the inconvenience of losing the addon for a few days)
I hope that is clearer now.