Uninstall instructions for NewsMonster
Just as a FYI for folks playing around with NewsMonster and want to delete it. Annoyingly, there’s no uninstaller for it yet, but these instructions seem to work correctly.
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April 10th, 2005 at 8:55 pm
The above link does not appear to be valid try this:
Mozilla Extension removal
October 13th, 2005 at 3:06 pm
ccb056 at computerbb was nice enough to post instructions to remove firefox extensions. I found it necessary to do this to uninstall newsmonster - instructions here:
http://www.computerbb.org/post-5448.html
A copy of the instructions:
1: Exit Mozilla Firefox
2: Browse to the “chrome” directory of your Mozilla Firefox application directory.
3: Delete “chrome.rdf” and the “overlayinfo” directory (they will regenerated on next Firefox startup).
4: Delete [extensionname].jar (or the [extensionname] directory, if it has one).
5: Remove every line with a reference to [extensionname] from “installed-chrome.txt”. Usually there are two: one to the content and one to the locale.
6: A few extensions might use additional files. TBE, for examplem has a “tabextensions.js” in “[/path/to/firefox]/defaults/pref/” to store its defaults in. Search through your application dir for such files and delete them.
7: Restart Mozilla Firefox.
It’s probably a good idea to make backups of the files/directories before deleting/changing anything to be able to restore the status quo in case anything goes wrong.
Note: The procedure above applies only to extensions that are installed in the application directory. To remove extensions from the profile, your safest course of action is to create a new profile and transfer over files from the previous one.