Re: Frustration with Firefox extension update

[Andrea Vettorello <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:27:38 -0500, Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Apologies for asking here, as it's probably not specific to Debian,
> but I am a Debian user (testing system) and this is a very
> knowledgable group (about lots of things :).
> 
> I use the gmail notifier extension, which lets me know whether I have
> new email.  But I cannot update from 0.3.3 to 0.4 - it appears to
> install, but when I restart Firefox, the earlier version is still
> there.  I have even uninstalled 0.3.3 and installed 0.4, but 0.3.3
> comes back!  No doubt it's a permissions problem - so much with Linux
> is - but I can't figure out where Firefox keeps anything so that I
> could correct it.  (An aside: why does Firefox use all these random
> strings for profiles and extensions, etc.?  Security through
> obscurity?  It makes for a very unpleasant enduser experience, at
> least for someone used to getting under the hood and editing config
> files.)
> 
> I've Googled, searched Firefox help, and looked everywhere I can think
> of - I can't believe I'm experiencing a unique problem, but I can't
> find anything useful.  You're my last resort!
> 

You talk about permission problems, have you installed the extension with root?

You need to look in your ~/.mozilla/firefox dir, deleting the
extension itself and modifying the prefs.js...


Andrea