Re: Frustration with Firefox extension update

From: Andrea Vettorello (andrea.vettorello_at_gmail.com)
Date: 12/30/04

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    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 

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