I was having crashes with FF 3.0 and 3.0.1, so I created a new profile
in profile manager,then I deleted the old profile in profile manager,
leaving the files intact. copied over only a few things (passwords,
bookmarks, site specific settings I think). Then I deleted the old
profile directory altogether. But I still have a lot of plugins and one
extension when FF loads. That may be ok, but why are they still there?
Souldn't axeing the old profile get rid of them, or at least have FF
not recognize them?

Steve wrote:
> I was having crashes with FF 3.0 and 3.0.1, so I created a new profile
> in profile manager,then I deleted the old profile in profile manager,
> leaving the files intact. copied over only a few things (passwords,
> bookmarks, site specific settings I think). Then I deleted the old
> profile directory altogether. But I still have a lot of plugins and one
> extension when FF loads. That may be ok, but why are they still there?
> Souldn't axeing the old profile get rid of them, or at least have FF
> not recognize them?

Plugins are in program directories, not in the profile. You should not
have had any extensions in the new profile unless you copied the
extensions subdirectory into it.

Steve wrote:
> I was having crashes with FF 3.0 and 3.0.1, so I created a new profile
> in profile manager,then I deleted the old profile in profile manager,
> leaving the files intact. copied over only a few things (passwords,
> bookmarks, site specific settings I think). Then I deleted the old
> profile directory altogether. But I still have a lot of plugins and one
> extension when FF loads. That may be ok, but why are they still there?
> Souldn't axeing the old profile get rid of them, or at least have FF
> not recognize them?

Not the plugins. They are stored in the Program Files directory for
Firefox.
What one extension?

Ron Hunter wrote:
> Steve wrote:
>> I was having crashes with FF 3.0 and 3.0.1, so I created a new profile
>> in profile manager,then I deleted the old profile in profile manager,
>> leaving the files intact. copied over only a few things (passwords,
>> bookmarks, site specific settings I think). Then I deleted the old
>> profile directory altogether. But I still have a lot of plugins and
>> one extension when FF loads. That may be ok, but why are they still
>> there? Souldn't axeing the old profile get rid of them, or at least
>> have FF not recognize them?
>
> Not the plugins. They are stored in the Program Files directory for
> Firefox.
> What one extension?
The extension is the AVG Safe Search extension. My whole goal here is
to try a clean profile to see if it stops crashing, and I can't say for
sure on that. And I thought an earlier post said to create a new
directory, migrate over just what you wanted to keep, but that meant
re-installing all the plug-ins because they'd go away with the new
profile. But not the case.

Steve wrote:
> Ron Hunter wrote:
>> Steve wrote:
>>> I was having crashes with FF 3.0 and 3.0.1, so I created a new
>>> profile in profile manager,then I deleted the old profile in
>>> profile manager, leaving the files intact. copied over only a few
>>> things (passwords, bookmarks, site specific settings I think). Then
>>> I deleted the old profile directory altogether. But I still have a
>>> lot of plugins and one extension when FF loads. That may be ok,
>>> but why are they still there? Souldn't axeing the old profile get
>>> rid of them, or at least have FF not recognize them?
>>
>> Not the plugins. They are stored in the Program Files directory for
>> Firefox.
>> What one extension?


> The extension is the AVG Safe Search extension.

Open the AVG control panel and disable Link Scanner. Then retry the profile
delete and new profile. Should be without the AVG extension.

Phydeaux wrote:
> Steve wrote:
>> Ron Hunter wrote:
>>> Steve wrote:
>>>> I was having crashes with FF 3.0 and 3.0.1, so I created a new
>>>> profile in profile manager,then I deleted the old profile in
>>>> profile manager, leaving the files intact. copied over only a few
>>>> things (passwords, bookmarks, site specific settings I think). Then
>>>> I deleted the old profile directory altogether. But I still have a
>>>> lot of plugins and one extension when FF loads. That may be ok,
>>>> but why are they still there? Souldn't axeing the old profile get
>>>> rid of them, or at least have FF not recognize them?
>>> Not the plugins. They are stored in the Program Files directory for
>>> Firefox.
>>> What one extension?
>
>
>> The extension is the AVG Safe Search extension.
>
> Open the AVG control panel and disable Link Scanner. Then retry the profile
> delete and new profile. Should be without the AVG extension.
>
>
>
>
Ok, that takes care of the Extension. But what about Plugins? There
are a lot of plugins that reappeared when I created the new profile. Do
they download with FF3? If not, how do I get rid of them to do a clean
install? And is there a list of suspect or problem Plugins?

>>
> Ok, that takes care of the Extension. But what about Plugins? There
> are a lot of plugins that reappeared when I created the new profile. Do
> they download with FF3? If not, how do I get rid of them to do a
> clean install? And is there a list of suspect or problem Plugins?

Most Plug-ins are loaded from "X:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox 3\plugins"
folder. All those *.dll files are the plug-ins you installed. [When you go
to Adobe to install Shockwave a .dll is put in the plugins folder.]

I never paid attention if any plugins come preloaded with FF beside one
called Mozilla default.

Some media players like Windows Media Player or VLC load from their own
program folder instead of Mozilla plugins.

You could move all the dlls out of the plugins folder or open the Extension
Manager and go to Plugins to disable the ones you don't want to run.