Rid Firefox of an extension??

[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?
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[Andy Blanchard]

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(a)comcast.net&gt; 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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[Bob Goodwin]

On 02/11/13 16:00, Ahmad Samir wrote:
>  On 2 November 2013 21:44, Beartooth <beartooth(a)comcast.net&gt;
> 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 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.
> >
>  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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[Ahmad Samir]

On 2 November 2013 21:44, Beartooth <beartooth(a)comcast.net&gt; 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 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.
>  
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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[Andy Blanchard]

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(a)comcast.net&gt; 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 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.
>
>
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>  Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
>
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[Reindl Harald]

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

[Beartooth]

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!

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

[Beartooth]

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.


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[Bob Goodwin]

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

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