{"id":673,"date":"2008-06-12T02:58:37","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T07:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2008\/06\/12\/cant-install-anymore-extensions-in-fir"},"modified":"2008-06-20T10:40:44","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T15:40:44","slug":"cant-install-anymore-extensions-in-firefox-3-kill-extensionsrdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2008\/06\/12\/cant-install-anymore-extensions-in-firefox-3-kill-extensionsrdf\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t install anymore extensions in Firefox 3?  Kill extensions.rdf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying out Firefox 3 and one strategy I do is to copy my Mozilla Firefox folder with me to whatever machine I go to so I don&#8217;t have to reinstall plugins, re-enter all my passwords, and configure everything about Firefox until I&#8217;m happy.<\/p>\n<p>However, it seems due to some reason or another I lost the ability to install extensions.  After Googling around I dug up a <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/firefox\/+bug\/65609\">nice hint<\/a> on Ubuntu&#8217;s Launchpad site.<\/p>\n<p>Basically delete the file named extensions.rdf in your Mozilla directory<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows: <em>C:\\Documents And Settings\\[Username]\\Application Data\\Mozilla Firefox\\<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Linux (Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 7.10): <em>$HOME\/.mozilla\/firefox\/profile\/MY_PROFILE\/<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/firefox\/+bug\/65609\">Read the Ubuntu fix<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying out Firefox 3 and one strategy I do is to copy my Mozilla Firefox folder with me to whatever machine I go to so I don&#8217;t have to reinstall plugins, re-enter all my passwords, and configure everything about Firefox until I&#8217;m happy. However, it seems due to some reason or another I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1216,1029],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fixes","category-open-source"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}