I'm running Firefox 24.0 on F18. It keeps telling me I have an update for AdblockPlus, but when I try to install it, it fails. I've tried doing it with AdblockPlus enabled, and with it disabled. There is no button on this extension, as there is on normal ones, to remove it. How do I just get rid of the whole extension?
Is there an item or a line in my .mozilla, for instance, where I can just delete it?
Am 02.11.2013 19:37, schrieb Beartooth:
I'm running Firefox 24.0 on F18. It keeps telling me I have an update for AdblockPlus, but when I try to install it, it fails. I've tried doing it with AdblockPlus enabled, and with it disabled. There is no button on this extension, as there is on normal ones, to remove it. How do I just get rid of the whole extension?
Is there an item or a line in my .mozilla, for instance, where I can just delete it?
you have pretty sure the *rpm package* installed and that exists *oustide* your user-profile and so can and must not be updated from the browser
yum remove mozilla-adblockplus
On 02/11/13 14:37, Beartooth wrote:
I'm running Firefox 24.0 on F18. It keeps telling me I have an update for AdblockPlus, but when I try to install it, it fails. I've tried doing it with AdblockPlus enabled, and with it disabled. There is no button on this extension, as there is on normal ones, to remove it. How do I just get rid of the whole extension?
Is there an item or a line in my .mozilla, for instance, where I can just delete it?
Doesn't the menu work?
Tools > Add-ons > Add Block 2.4 > Remove
On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 15:30:46 -0400, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
On 02/11/13 14:37, Beartooth wrote:
I'm running Firefox 24.0 on F18. It keeps telling me I have an update for AdblockPlus, but when I try to install it, it fails. I've tried doing it with AdblockPlus enabled, and with it disabled. There is no button on this extension, as there is on normal ones, to remove it. How do I just get rid of the whole extension?
Is there an item or a line in my .mozilla, for instance, where I can just delete it?
Doesn't the menu work?
Tools > Add-ons > Add Block 2.4 > Remove
No. That's what I was trying to say above :
There is no button on this extension, as there is on normal ones, to remove it.
In fact, Tools > Add-ons takes me to any of two or three places, but never anywhere that AddBlock has a remove button, but only Preferences and Disable, although others in the same list do.
AdBlock Plus is available as an RPM, which I assume would install for every user and require root to remove the package. You can check with the command:
rpm -q mozilla-adblockplus
If it's installed, then removing the RPM and restarting Firefox should remove the extension.
On 2 November 2013 19:44, Beartooth beartooth@comcast.net wrote:
On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 15:30:46 -0400, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
On 02/11/13 14:37, Beartooth wrote:
I'm running Firefox 24.0 on F18. It keeps telling me I have anupdate for AdblockPlus, but when I try to install it, it fails. I've tried doing it with AdblockPlus enabled, and with it disabled. There is no button on this extension, as there is on normal ones, to remove it. How do I just get rid of the whole extension?
Is there an item or a line in my .mozilla, for instance, where Ican just delete it?
Doesn't the menu work?
Tools > Add-ons > Add Block 2.4 > Remove
No. That's what I was trying to say above :There is no button on this extension, as there is on normal ones, to remove it.
In fact, Tools > Add-ons takes me to any of two or three places,but never anywhere that AddBlock has a remove button, but only Preferences and Disable, although others in the same list do.
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On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 19:52:28 +0000, Andy Blanchard wrote:
AdBlock Plus is available as an RPM, which I assume would install for every user and require root to remove the package. You can check with the command:
rpm -q mozilla-adblockplus
If it's installed, then removing the RPM and restarting Firefox should remove the extension.
Well, I'll be jiggered! I normally download things to install, especially rpms, to my userid's home, and install them myself from there. (I'm the only person who ever touches this machine.) I must have let Firefox do an install once, (unless the code for AdblockPlus is weird). Many, many thanks!
Actually, if you have (or had) the .RPM version installed, then you would have installed the package via your package manager of choice. You can kind of think of this means of installing the extension as a kind of system policy; it installs a single copy of the extension to the main Firefox application folder and enforces the use of AdBlock on all users of a system.
If, on the otherhand, you install the .xpi version of AdBlock Plus as an extension from within Firefox then it's a user specific thing, and this is the normal way of handling extensions in Firefox. It's installed to a directory within the user's home directory and the user is free to remove it, but every user would need to install the extension separately.
Which approach you use is a matter of personal preference and requirements; the former is much more useful for system admins of multi-user installs, but for all others the latter is probably a simpler choice.
Andy
On 3 November 2013 18:46, Beartooth beartooth@comcast.net wrote:
On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 19:52:28 +0000, Andy Blanchard wrote:
AdBlock Plus is available as an RPM, which I assume would install for every user and require root to remove the package. You can check with the command:
rpm -q mozilla-adblockplus
If it's installed, then removing the RPM and restarting Firefox should remove the extension.
Well, I'll be jiggered! I normally download things to install,especially rpms, to my userid's home, and install them myself from there. (I'm the only person who ever touches this machine.) I must have let Firefox do an install once, (unless the code for AdblockPlus is weird). Many, many thanks!
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On 2 November 2013 21:44, Beartooth beartooth@comcast.net wrote:
On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 15:30:46 -0400, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
On 02/11/13 14:37, Beartooth wrote:
I'm running Firefox 24.0 on F18. It keeps telling me I have anupdate for AdblockPlus, but when I try to install it, it fails. I've tried doing it with AdblockPlus enabled, and with it disabled. There is no button on this extension, as there is on normal ones, to remove it. How do I just get rid of the whole extension?
Is there an item or a line in my .mozilla, for instance, where Ican just delete it?
Doesn't the menu work?
Tools > Add-ons > Add Block 2.4 > Remove
No. That's what I was trying to say above :There is no button on this extension, as there is on normal ones, to remove it.
In fact, Tools > Add-ons takes me to any of two or three places,but never anywhere that AddBlock has a remove button, but only Preferences and Disable, although others in the same list do.
If the mozilla-adblockplus package is installed then the extension is installed under /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/, and you can't update it from within Firefox, you'd have to wait until that rpm package is updated.
To remove adblockplus in this case, uninstall mozilla-adblockplus.
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On 02/11/13 16:00, Ahmad Samir wrote:
On 2 November 2013 21:44, Beartooth beartooth@comcast.net wrote:
On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 15:30:46 -0400, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
On 02/11/13 14:37, Beartooth wrote:
I'm running Firefox 24.0 on F18. It keeps telling me I have anupdate for AdblockPlus, but when I try to install it, it fails. I've tried doing it with AdblockPlus enabled, and with it disabled. There is no button on this extension, as there is on normal ones, to remove it. How do I just get rid of the whole extension?
Is there an item or a line in my .mozilla, for instance, where Ican just delete it?
Doesn't the menu work?
Tools > Add-ons > Add Block 2.4 > Remove
No. That's what I was trying to say above :There is no button on this extension, as there is on normal ones, to remove it.
In fact, Tools > Add-ons takes me to any of two or three places,but never anywhere that AddBlock has a remove button, but only Preferences and Disable, although others in the same list do.
If the mozilla-adblockplus package is installed then the extension is installed under /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/, and you can't update it from within Firefox, you'd have to wait until that rpm package is updated.
To remove adblockplus in this case, uninstall mozilla-adblockplus.
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Here I see:
[bobg@box10 ~]$ yum list mozilla-adblockplus Loaded plugins: langpacks Available Packages mozilla-adblockplus.noarch 2.4-1.fc19
So I suspect yum remove mozilla-adblockplus would take it out?
Bob
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