mozilla-adblockplus-2.6.6-1 shows 2.6.4 installed

[Andre Robatino]

I have mozilla-adblockplus-2.6.6-1 installed in F21 (was just pushed stable
in F19, F20, and F21). Firefox's Add-ons/Extensions still shows 2.6.4, even
after quitting and restarting Firefox, and removing and reinstalling
mozilla-adblockplus. Do other people see this? (I'm guessing it happens in
all browsers and is Fedora-specific. I don't see any mention in the Adblock
Plus forum.)

[Tim]

Tim:
> > I shall ask the obvious question:  Did you completely quit
> Firefox so
> > that there were no other running Firefox processes? 
Andre Robatino:
>  You're right, that must have been the problem. Last night I
> noticed
>  that there was a running Firefox process even after quitting the
>  graphical Firefox window, and killed it. This morning, Firefox gave me
>  the message about having trouble restoring the previous session, so I
>  just started a new session. Add-ons/Extensions now shows the correct
>  version, 2.6.6. Sorry for the noise.  
That's okay, I've been burnt by that one, before.  Particularly during
yum updates.  Other software seems to handle being updated, while it's
still running, usually quite okay.  You carry on using the old version
from memory, until you quit.  Then the next time you load the program
it's the new version.  Firefox, on the other hand, would often jam up on
me when updated while in use, and needing quitting and restarting.

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[Andre Robatino]

Tim <ignored_mailbox <at> yahoo.com.au> writes:

>  On Mon, 2014-12-29 at 16:09 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote:
>  > Firefox's Add-ons/Extensions still shows 2.6.4, even after quitting
>  > and restarting Firefox, and removing and reinstalling
>  > mozilla-adblockplus.
>  
>  I shall ask the obvious question:  Did you completely quit Firefox so
>  that there were no other running Firefox processes? 
You're right, that must have been the problem. Last night I noticed that
there was a running Firefox process even after quitting the graphical
Firefox window, and killed it. This morning, Firefox gave me the message
about having trouble restoring the previous session, so I just started a new
session. Add-ons/Extensions now shows the correct version, 2.6.6. Sorry for
the noise.

P.S. I had previously removed the file ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/pluginreg.dat in
an attempt to have it recreated, and fix the problem. It was not recreated
on restarting firefox yesterday. But it's there now, after restarting it
this morning.

[Tim]

On Mon, 2014-12-29 at 16:09 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote:
>  Firefox's Add-ons/Extensions still shows 2.6.4, even after
> quitting
>  and restarting Firefox, and removing and reinstalling
>  mozilla-adblockplus. 
I shall ask the obvious question:  Did you completely quit Firefox so
that there were no other running Firefox processes?

-- 
tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp

Linux 3.17.7-200.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Wed Dec 17 04:08:31 UTC 2014 i686

All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying
to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists.

George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.

[Heinz Diehl]

On 29.12.2014, Andre Robatino wrote: 

>  I have mozilla-adblockplus-2.6.6-1 installed in F21 (was just pushed
> stable
>  in F19, F20, and F21). Firefox's Add-ons/Extensions still shows
>  2.6.4. 
My firefox shows the correct version. A quick grep into the
Fedora 21 adblockplus src.rpm does not reveal any "2.6.4" in the
active code, so there must be something else which causes the
behaviour you're encountering..