Re: [SLUG] Firefox extension issues

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Thu Mar 23 2006 - 13:10:44 EST


On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Mario Lombardo wrote:

> Anybody know how do I resolve this or where I should go?
>
> [user@baglady .mozilla]$ firefox -safe-mode
> *** loading the extensions datasource
> *** Failed to load overlay chrome://flst/content/flst.xul
> UA: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922
> Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc3 Firefox/1.0.7:, extra: Firefox/1.0.7
>
> Last I did, I removed the FLST extension and restarted FF and this is what I
> got. I can't seem to find any current information. Also, "safe-mode"
> doesn't work. Ouch! I'm thinking of upgrading to 1.5 to attempt the new and
> improved safe-mode, but I don't want to introduce more problems into the mix.
> I emailed the author of FLST, but he hasn't gotten back to me, and it's been
> four days.

On this machine (Ubuntu 5.10, FF *spit* 1.0) there's a dir
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/ . Since I have no plugins it's empty.
Poke around in there and see what you see.

There's also ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat . "locate plug | grep fire"
may turn up some useful stuff too.

Note: It is possible changing things like that behind FF's back (after a
fashion) will make things inconsistent. But in that case, you're no worse
off than you are now. And besides, if you mv things rather than rm them,
you can always put them back. Just in case, you might want to back up the
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox tree.

ObRant: We hatess laggy SSH connections, yes we do.

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