How to Uninstall Mozilla Firefox Extensions
Posted: May 1st, 2004, 10:01 pm
This will describe how to uninstall Mozilla Firefox Extensions
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.
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.