Uninstalling add-ons
Extensions
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Manually
Until the uninstall feature for extensions is implemented (bug 170006), use this procedure to uninstall extensions:
- Exit Mozilla Firefox.
- Browse to the "chrome" directory of your Mozilla Firefox application directory.
- Delete "chrome.rdf" and the "overlayinfo" directory (they will regenerated on next Firefox startup).
- Delete [extensionname].jar (or the [extensionname] directory, if it has one).
- Remove every line with a reference to [extensionname] from "installed-chrome.txt". Usually there are two: one to the content and one to the locale.
- A few extensions might use additional files. TBE, for examplem has a "tabextensions.js" in "[/path/to/firefox]/defaults/pref/" to store its defaults in. Search through your application dir for such files and delete them.
- Restart Mozilla Firefox.
It's probably a good idea to make backups of the files/directories before deleting/changing anything to be able to restore the status quo in case anything goes wrong.
Note: The procedure above applies only to extensions that are installed in the application directory. To remove extensions from the profile, your safest course of action is to create a new profile and transfer over files from the previous one.
