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Old 12-05-2008, 09:57 AM   #1
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firefox extensions not applied on downgrade


hi.

I was using firefox 3.X (latest) until recently but it irked for two reasons:
- it takes forever for everything
- it kept crashing (as in really really often)

first I got rid of some extensions to save some thinking energy, but didn't help much, so I downgraded and am now running 2.0

silly thing is, none of my extensions work - they seem to be 'registered' to FF3 (which I purged)

This also applies to new addons installed from FF2.


clever ideas appreciated, thanks.
 
Old 12-05-2008, 12:24 PM   #2
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Have you removed (and backed-up) your firefox profile directory before downgrading? If not, you can try to rename (back-up) your $HOME/.mozilla directory and let Firefox recreate it as for the first login. Then you can always import your old bookmarks and other stuff.

Some of the Firefox extensions are stored on a per-user basis under $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/extensions. The default extensions are under /usr/lib/firefox-X.X.X/extensions.

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Old 12-08-2008, 12:53 PM   #3
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ok, I'm fine now: I deleted the files for the extensions in the ~/.mozilla/firefox/f9x?x?x folder.
 
  


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