How to delete Firefox's disabled add-on listing?

I see what you see with an incompatible Roboform add-on. I was never able to find it to remove it, as it stays grayed out. If you can ever find the item, and there is no uninstall, just delete the files, or forget about them, like I did.

 

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I had also said:

Just like yours. I am going to do a thorough search, and, if I come up with anything, I will let you know.

I got rid of my Roboform entry. I had to go through each and every folder in the Extention folder of the profile, and had to single click on each Chrome folder. That gave me the name of the add-on.jar file/folder.. I deleted the entire main folder, and when I reopened FF3.0b5, the Roboform entry was gone.
I will check other files, but I think that's it.

 

Broni / Westside

Did this occur installing AVG 8.0 Free Edition or Trial version for purchase? All of us AVG users will travel this road with 7.5 updates discontinuing on 5-31-08.

Thanks

 

Dennis L,

Good point, and the following is from AVG FAQ:

 

Thank you Broni / Ramonia
Will possible allow install for this feature and see if it behaves with McAfee SiteAdvisor. I have two concerns ... ambiguous red status (McAfee/Google) for some sites (a site I frequent has this status, never had a problem with site) and any slow down in browser performance.

AVG 7.5 Free Edition virus definitions ending ...
I was notified via AVG with a popup screen during daily updates. It stated 5-31-08 ending date. The only way to clear/remove screen was to click on one of two buttons "Update later -or- Install now ". I chose later, waiting / monitoring issues experienced by 8.0 uses.... and I do thank you for that.

 

broni,

Back to the original question...

Did you notice, when reading the FAQ that:

Note: AVG add-ons cannot be used with Mozilla Firefox 3 (beta) at the moment.

See this FAQ: 1253: How to disable the AVG add-on in my Internet Browser
Last sentence...

From what I read in this MozillaZine KB Article:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_Uninstall_Extensions

Because the add-on is installed from third party software, you will not be able to uninstall it using the Add-ons manager. If you are an experienced user, you can uninstall the add-on by removing the associated Registry entry; otherwise, simply disable it.

In the article there were two Registry locations listed:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mozilla\Firefox\Extensions\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Mozilla\Firefox\Extensions\

 

Which previously mentioned method?

 

Which one of the FAQ?

 

I don't follow this. The original post showed a grayed out item in the 3.0beta add-on manager. This was, exactly, the same situation as I mentioned for the Roboform add-on. Now, AVG says that that Safe Shield cannot be used in Firefox3.0 at this time. Granted, but nothing in the instruction says that the item should have been in the add-on manager, unless one used a profile formerly used by a compatible version. This was the case with my Roboform add-on which had been installed in Firefox1.5, and I am using that profile for Firefox3.0. So, is the AVG add-on installed but not usable in 3.0, or was it installed before with a compatible version?
In my case, I deleted the Roboform Add-on which was grayed out, and on reinstalling it, I was able to see the Roboform toolbar (at least once). And the properties said that the add-on was installed in profile Firefox1.5 (as I named it), with unknown version (I guess of Firefox). The add-on was no longer grayed out. I had not done anything with the Registry.

 

I had seen that after you posted, but, did not realize that you started from scratch.

 

Interesting, as I followed the same procedure and the grayed out entry for the AVG plugin is still listed???