handleiding om extensies te verwijderen

[vulture]

Uninstalling Extensions

Until the uninstall feature for extensions is implemented (bug 170006), use this procedure as a workaround. Although the instructions refer to Mozilla they should be equally applicable to older versions of Firefox or Thunderbird.

Note: this does not apply to Firefox 0.9 and Thunderbird 0.7.
For extensions installed in the program folder

1. Exit Mozilla
2. Change to the chrome dir of your Mozilla application dir
3. Delete chrome.rdf and the overlayinfo dir (they are regenerated on next start)
4. Delete [extension].jar (or the [extension] dir, if it's used unpacked)
5. Remove every line with a reference to [extension] 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, for instance Tabbrowser Extensions adds tabextensions.js in [Mozilla dir]/defaults/pref/ to store its defaults in. Search through your app dir for such files and delete them.
7. Restart Mozilla

For extensions installed in your profile folder

1. Exit Mozilla
2. Change to the chrome dir of your Mozilla profile dir
3. Delete [extension].jar (or the [extension] dir, if it's used unpacked)
4. Remove every line with a reference to [extension] from chrome.rdf and the overlayinfo dir. (usually there are two: one to the content and one to the locale)
5. A few extensions might use additional files; Search through your profile dir for such files and delete them.
6. Restart Mozilla

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

[Ria]

Er mag geen enkele fout gemaakt worden, anders start firefox niet meer op. Beneden staat nog een Extensions Uninstaller, die nog steeds prima werkt.

[vulture]

Deze uninstaller instructies zijn dan ook voor de Mozilla suite bedoeld . En voor de oudere versies van FF en TB. Maar bij FF en TB kan het inderdaad makkelijker.