"BTW, you never did tell us which extensions are out of date." rightly... a striking example, freedo plugins (for example) have a message about updating.. freedo libre, for example, I updated it through extensionstore only because freedo update warned me...while extensionstore did not inform me of any update....others, only by chance I noticed updates by comparing the version number reported in extensionstore. I can't now make a list of all the (many) extensions that I own...but this, in general, is the problem... also, I don't understand if it was a programming choice, but....as you can see from the screenshot....I no longer have the search field, the writing is missing...one of the buttons (red at the top) for updating / setting is missing if I'm boring you too much....I apologize...just leave the post without replies I'll try to continue with what I have available.. thanks again