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.)
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..
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 <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:
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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