Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird and other Gecko-based software discussion (Part 1)

[gonaads]

Or was it this one?

 

[funky dredd]

1. Exit Mozilla Firefox.
2. Browse to the "chrome" directory of your Mozilla Firefox application directory.
3. Delete "chrome.rdf" and the "overlayinfo" directory (they will regenerated on next Firefox startup).
4. Delete [extensionname].jar (or the [extensionname] directory, if it has one).
5. Remove every line with a reference to [extensionname] from "installed-chrome.txt". Usually there are two: one to the content and one to the locale.
6. A few extensions might use additional files. TBE, for examplem has a "tabextensions.js" in "[/path/to/firefox]/defaults/pref/" to store its defaults in. Search through your application dir for such files and delete them.
7. Restart Mozilla Firefox.

It's probably a good idea to make backups of the files/directories before deleting/changing anything to be able to restore the status quo in case anything goes wrong.

Note: The procedure above applies only to extensions that are installed in the application directory. To remove extensions from the profile, your safest course of action is to create a new profile and transfer over files from the previous one.

So I guess there isn't an easier way! Thanks!

 

[Henyman]

under tools >> options >> extensions? uninstall by clicking button 😛

 

[funky dredd]

That doesn't uninstall it. Only disables it 😛

 

[Henyman]

ahh well 😛

 

[funky dredd]

Worked like a charm! Thanks for the info. They should make a proggy for this!

 

[Henyman]

?? what worked?

 

[Daeron Tinúviel]

there is an extension to uninstall extensions let me see if i found the url

 

[Daeron Tinúviel]

i found it

Uninstaller 0.1


scroll all the way down u will see it

 

[funky dredd]

Sweet! Thank you!

 

[muzikool]

Or was it this one?

Either will work, thanks for putting up with my nagging! 😛

 

[Vetrius]

any way when downloading to open the .exe instead of saving it? only can open on known extensions and well... .exe's aren't know as those kinda extensions...

 

[Xie]

any way when downloading to open the .exe instead of saving it? only can open on known extensions and well... .exe's aren't know as those kinda extensions...

I'm not sure about Firefox but in mozilla you can do this under peferences -> Navigator -> helper applications

*Edit* - hmm... maybe that would be kinda complex ... would have to set mime type and whatnot :/

 

[allbusiness]

what kind of nightlies do people use around here? tweaked like the ones on The Burning Edge, official, or what?

 

[Xie]

what kind of nightlies do people use around here? tweaked like the ones on The Burning Edge, official, or what?

I use what you would call "official" nightlies I suppose as they come from mozilla ftp 🙂 running kinda old nightly right now ...
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040219

 

[Daeron Tinúviel]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040226 Firefox/0.8.0+ (mmoy)

 

[muzikool]

Milk Theme

I must say that this theme is the best-looking one I've seen so far. Here's a link to the download for anyone that wants it: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/5732073/

I've included a screenshot of the theme on my browser.

 

[gonaads]

I like the "kids" theme... it's cool. 😀

check it out

And you can even theme the menus in firefox... check it

It may be tooo fun for some. 😛

 

[Evil Marge]

I like it. I had stopped using Firefox but I might give it a go again and use that 😀

 

[funky dredd]

I like the kids theme. I have been getting mine from here ---> http://www.mozthemes.tk/