Actually, if you have (or had) the .RPM version installed, then you would have installed the package via your package manager of choice. You can kind of think of this means of installing the extension as a kind of system policy; it installs a single copy of the extension to the main Firefox application folder and enforces the use of AdBlock on all users of a system.
If, on the otherhand, you install the .xpi version of AdBlock Plus as an extension from within Firefox then it's a user specific thing, and this is the normal way of handling extensions in Firefox. It's installed to a directory within the user's home directory and the user is free to remove it, but every user would need to install the extension separately.
If, on the otherhand, you install the .xpi version of AdBlock Plus as an extension from within Firefox then it's a user specific thing, and this is the normal way of handling extensions in Firefox. It's installed to a directory within the user's home directory and the user is free to remove it, but every user would need to install the extension separately.
Which approach you use is a matter of personal preference and requirements; the former is much more useful for system admins of multi-user installs, but for all others the latter is probably a simpler choice.
On 3 November 2013 18:46, Beartooth <beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 19:52:28 +0000, Andy Blanchard wrote:Well, I'll be jiggered! I normally download things to install,
> AdBlock Plus is available as an RPM, which I assume would install for
> every user and require root to remove the package. You can check with
> the command:
>
> rpm -q mozilla-adblockplus
>
> If it's installed, then removing the RPM and restarting Firefox should
> remove the extension.
especially rpms, to my userid's home, and install them myself from there.
(I'm the only person who ever touches this machine.) I must have let
Firefox do an install once, (unless the code for AdblockPlus is weird).
Many, many thanks!
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