Re: Rid Firefox of an extension??

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On 2 November 2013 21:44, Beartooth <beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 15:30:46 -0400, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
> wrote:
>
>> On 02/11/13 14:37, Beartooth wrote:
>>>      I'm running Firefox 24.0 on F18. It keeps telling me I have an
>>> update for AdblockPlus, but when I try to install it, it fails. I've
>>> tried doing it with AdblockPlus enabled, and with it disabled. There is
>>> no button on this extension, as there is on normal ones, to remove it.
>>> How do I just get rid of the whole extension?
>>>
>>>      Is there an item or a line in my .mozilla, for instance, where I
>>> can just delete it?
>>
>> Doesn't the menu work?
>>
>> Tools > Add-ons > Add Block 2.4 > Remove
>
>         No. That's what I was trying to say above :
>
>>> There is no button on this extension, as there is on normal ones, to
>>> remove it.
>
>         In fact, Tools > Add-ons takes me to any of two or three places,
> but never anywhere that AddBlock has a remove button, but only
> Preferences and Disable, although others in the same list do.
>

If the mozilla-adblockplus package is installed then the extension is
installed under /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/, and you can't update
it from within Firefox, you'd have to wait until that rpm package is
updated.

To remove adblockplus in this case, uninstall mozilla-adblockplus.

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