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patrickmaddog
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Cannot uninstall add-ons in FxP 3.6.3

I was doing some testing to find out if some of my favorite add-ons would work portably -- and most did -- but when I decided to uninstall them, restarting the browser caused the add-ons window to pop up saying that I had just installed them, and they remain in the add-ons list.

Do you know what could be causing this? Is there a way to manually remove the add-ons by deleting them from the drive? The add-ons that I am trying to uninstall are:

-Add To Search Bar
-Beef TACO
-Ghostery
-SkipScreen

The add-ons I am going to keep are:

-1-Click Youtube Video Downloader
-AdBlock Plus
-Combine Buttons
-Diigo Bookmarks and Web Annotations
-DownThemALL!
-DownThemALL! AntiContainer
-Fission
-Greasemonkey
-Stylish
-Locationbar2
-Smoothwheel
-Speed Dial
-Tab Utilities
-TinEye Reverse Image Search
-TorButton

Thanks for any help!

Chris Morgan
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Try again

That is strange behaviour. I've never seen anything like that happen. It's possible in doing some add-on updates something happened. I'd suggest that you try again. It may work properly the next time.

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I had already tried multiple

I had already tried multiple times before coming here, and no luck. I forgot to mention that I was able to successfully uninstall ScribeFire Next, but after that restart was when the problems occurred. I don't believe that had much to do with it though, because I have always had the strange issue of the add-ons window appearing at startup and saying '# new add-ons installed', usually highlighting the newest ones in the list. I thought this was just something normal that happens when moving from computer to computer, but apparently not.

I thought that perhaps there was a problem deleting the files from my drive, but I have full administrative rights on the computers in question, and there were no file access restrictions in effect, so I don't know why this would be.

And thanks for the speedy reply.

Chris Morgan
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Safe mode

Try starting it in safe mode and uninstalling it from safe mode. It may help, so it's worth a try, I reckon.

Open Command Prompt. cd X:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable (meaning your install path). Then FirefoxPortable.exe -safe-mode and you can try uninstalling the add-ons again.

It's probable that there's some profile corruption (likely to be only very minor, I'd say); just in case you're not aware of it, it's a good idea to be careful about how you use Firefox - not pulling out the USB disk without safely removing it, etc.

So first of all try safe mode, then after that you can try removing the extension manually.

See http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/cannot+uninstall+an+add-on for more information on the process. Your profile is in Data\profile in the directory you installed Firefox Portable to.

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Thanks!

Safe mode worked perfectly. I had thought of it, but was unsure of how to use it for Fx Portable and then forgot to ask.

As for profile corruption, I am a stickler for safely removing hardware, and I would NEVER pull the plug without properly ejecting the drive, so I doubt that is the cause. Should I continue to be concerned about these events?

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Don't worry

Don't worry about it then. Probably a freak occurrence, possibly related to one of the extensions.

If you want to check to make sure you could try checking the disk for errors - in the Options menu in the Platform.

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