[TAG] two cent tip

[Thomas Adam]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 07:19:06PM +0000, Pete Jewell wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 Mar 2005 15:31, Thomas Adam wrote:

> Unless you've fscked up your mozilla-firefox installation somehow,
> like I have. The only way I can install xpi files is to download them

But then that's a PEBKAC error and not one of Mozilla.  :P

> first, and then 'Open File' them, otherwise nothing happens when I
> click the xpi link (after adding the source to my approved list). It
> happened a couple of (debian) versions back, funnily enough after
> I'd been playing around with the about:config settings ;-) I ended
> up having to clear my .firefox and .mozilla directories to get it
> (somewhat) working again.

Mozilla have, on their website, suggestions about how to do that
non-drastically [1].  There is also a link off of [1] to a plugin called
'mozbackup' which also backs one's profile up -- although the preposition
here is that while it is backed up, it isn't damaged to begin with.

-- Thomas Adam

[1]  http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.5/faq/profile.html

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