[Gllug] How to re-enable extensions in Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3

[Nick Richards]

> > > Specifically, I have Java installed and the plugin is sym-linked to my
> > > ~/.firefox/plugins directory.  The new installation hasn't removed the
> > > sym-link and yet Firefox no longer enables it.
> > >
> >
> > Er, isn't Java a plugin rather than an extension?
> 
> Yes, but arguably a plugin is a kind of extension (although possibly not
> the way the term is used in Firefox) and it has certainly been disabled.

Ah well yes a plugin is a type of extension but it's certainly not the
way the term is being used in firefox. A firefox extension is an XPI
package that runs as part of the application rather than a file that
is called as required and connects external applications into firefox
(the plugin).

As such firefox disaables extensions becuase pre1.0 the extension API
is in a state of fairly siginificant flux and teh integrated nature of
extension startup means that an old extension can take down the
browser.

> 
> >
> >  type about:plugins
> > into your location bar and see if java's mentioned.
> 
> I have - it isn't.  It was before the upgrade.
> 
> >
> >  If not then I
> > suspect your symlink is dodgy in some way or the permissions are
> > suspect.
> 
> But the symlink is the same one that was there before, and it worked
> before.  I'm not sure how a symlink could be "dodgy".

Fair point. I had a simliar problem when I upgraded as I switched from
an RPM install to the mozilla tarball so I had to recreate my symlinks
in the new install location but if the symlinks in the right place,
you've got permissions to run the java plugin etc. then I'm stumped.

Nick
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