Firefox startup entries.

[DazzyBox]

Hi there.

My Firefox extensions are no longer showing up in the start up management tool of CCleaner. The plugins are fine. I am using the latest builds of both CC and FF (26).

Any ideas?

Cheers.

[Alan_B]

Welcome to the forum.

The plugins are fine.

Please clarify.

Are you saying that CC correctly shows the "Plugins" but not the "Extensions"

or are you meaning that your "Extensions" are still present and working correctly ?

 

Please list up to (and no more than) 6 of the most common Firefox Extensions which are not being shown,

Otherwise others may well report "it works for me" because they happen to use extensions that are still detected.

 

Please define the actual reported version number of CC.

What was to you the "latest" is not the same as what will be the latest when this topic is read in the future.

 

Please define version of Windows, and whether 32 bit or 64 bit - it might be relevant.

 

[DazzyBox]

H Alanm

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, that is correct, CC correctly shows the Plugins but not the Extensions- none whatsoever.

I performed a fresh install of Firefox (removing all, traces), and the extensions where listed, but have disappeared agin.

 

Using CC 4.08.4428

Windows XP Pro SP3 (Yes , I know it's ancient !)  32bit

Regards.

D

[Winapp2.ini]

Do you have firefox installed in its default location? Around how many extensions are missing from the list?

[dvdbane]

just want to add another issues related to ff tab
not a problem to me but might be valuable to the dev or not
currently using FF27 Portable and Java Portable

i've disabled :

extension - about:addons-memory, adblock plus pop up, downthemall

plugin - java

only java have "No" status while the 3 extension doesn't

 

@DazzyBox

do you use Avast?

[cbaumer0628]

Like DazzyBox, on my PC running Windows XP SP3, I too have noticed that
CCleaner's (CC) (v4.08.4428) Tools->Startup->Firefox tab is showing only
data for plugins and data for extensions is missing for Firefox (FF) 26
and later (after just upgrading to FF 27.0b2 yesterday).

Under FF 25.0.1, CC's Tools->Startup->Firefox tab was in complete
agreement with FF's Tools->Add-ons ("about:addons"), showing 4 extensions
(3 enabled, 1 disabled) and 17 plugins (15 enabled, 2 disabled).

After removing FF 25.0.1 including profile data, doing a clean install
of FF 26.0 including reinstallation of all extensions and plugins, with
NO changes in extensions/plugins from FF 25.0.1, FF's "about:addons"
information stayed exactly the same, however CC's Startup->Firefox tab
information was no longer in agreement.  The tab's plugin information
for the 17 plugins was in total agreement with FF.  However, the tab had
NO extension information for the 4 installed extensions.

After doing a little searching at bugzilla.mozilla.org, I discovered that
FF's installed extension information migrated from FF profile file
"extensions.sqlite" to "extensions.json" in FF 26 by the following
bug/feature requests.  Likewise, FF's installed theme information
(which appears under the "Appearance" tab of "about:addons") migrated
from profile file "addons.sqlite" to "addons.json".

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=853388

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=853389

So, if FF 26 was installed as an upgrade to FF 25, the obsolete
"extensions.sqlite" profile file will still be there and CC's
Tools->Startup->Firefox tab will show FF 25 (rather than FF 26)
extension information from this file.  However, if FF 26 was installed
as a clean install, with FF 25 and profile data removed beforehand, as
DazzyBox and I had done, then extension data will be completely missing
from CC's Tools->Startup->Firefox tab.  You can easily reproduce this
problem, on a machine that merely upgraded from FF 25 to FF 26, by simply
removing or renaming "extensions.sqlite" in the profile folder.

So, both I and DazzyBox would appreciate it very much if you would modify
CC to look for installed extension information in profile file
"extensions.json", rather than "extensions.sqlite", for FF 26 and later.

Thanks in advance!

[Alan_B]

Plugins have no problem - things like FLASH are installed on the operating system and not in browser profiles.

[DazzyBox]

Hi Guys.

Sorry I haven't replied since my initial enquiry.

Thanks to all for your input. I was particularly interested in cbaumer0628's post.

Some of my extensions are yet to be updated to be compatible with FF26, so I have performed a clean install of FF25, and no longer have the problem.

To answer dvdbane- Yes I do have Avast installed, and I have never had any problems- Why do you ask ?

Regards