Aren't firefox's preferences stored in ~/.mozilla/ ?  That being the
case, could you not simply uninstall and then reinstall firefox, while
keeping your settings undisturbed?
-Erik

On 5/12/05, der.hans <PLUGd@lufthans.com> wrote:
> moin, moin,
> 
> flashblock's web page has a warning not to upgrade and instead delete the
> old version and install the new version. All well and good, except
> updating
> from the browser doesn't bring up that warning.
> 
> So, now I have a hosed firefox setup.
> 
>        -safe-mode
>               Starts Mozilla Firefox in  safe  mode,  that  is  disabling
> all
>               extensions and showing a bit more debugging messages.
> 
> Most cool, except it doesn't work :(.
> 
> $ firefox -safe-mode
> *** loading the extensions datasource
> *** loading the extensions datasource
> *** Failed to load overlay chrome://flashblock/content/flashblock.xul
> 
> Anyone know how I can fix my firefox setup without just wiping all of my
> preferences?
> 
> The menu buttons don't work. I don't know about the nav buttons as firefox
> isn't rendering pages. I can check for new extensions, but there's nothing
> for removing installed extensions.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
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