So, I use my USB drive at home and work all the time. I have never had trouble allowing it to update any add-ons itself. But, this time, I notice that none of my extensions are active. Even the themes is not active.
Poking around, I notice that ALL of my extensions and themes say that they will INSTALL (not update) after firefox is restarted. It doesn't seem to matter that I didn't actually update most of them in the last month or so. Many of the extensions have never required an update since their original install.
So, I do the closing of the firefox app thing, and then I do the restart firefox app thing. Same problem. None of my add-ons work. And, again, they all say they need firefox to restart for them to be INSTALLED.
Help!
PS. I set my browser to open the same pages as when it was most recently shutdown, but it never works that way anymore. It always starts with a blank page now. I've checked the settings and it is correct (i.e., it is supposed to open up the same pages where I left off when I shutdown). Related issue?
It does seem to remember all my passwords still.
I've tried a new install of the firefox portable app. Still has the same issue.
Did the virus check thing. It's clean. AVG and avast both say so.
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deleting the extensions.rdf (and possibly extensions.ini) from your FirefoxPortable\Data\profile folder, that should fix it.
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It's the prefs.js thing (I have no idea what that is).
Isn't this a generic firefox question?
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I just want to say your problem sounds similar to one I was having. The way I fixed it was to disable certain extensions that I knew required a lot of attention when they were first installed. I disabled a couple of extensions and then the others finally installed. Then I one-by-one enabled the ones I thought were the problem. It takes some time doing it this way but it worked for me. This is assuming you installed a lot of extensions/updates all at once.